Denial

I had a play around with the latest (0.9.32) TommyGun this afternoon. I wanted to mock up some multicolour tile-mapped rooms, so I started with the Tile tab in the image editor. I changed the width/height to 4/8 and the format to Vic20 multicolor, and typed in a name: http://www.kweepa.com/step/pix/...

You might be able to get some ideas for (size) optimization, if you need them, from this thread: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19216&page=34 Beware, there are nearly 1000 posts! Here are some of the fruits: http://reptonix.awardspace.co.uk/sinclair/oneliners/ See particu...

eslapion wrote:Wish somebody would make the same kind of clip for Shamus.

There's always this:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/vic-2 ... 1331229577

I'm amazed by Shamus ability to show so many sprites (even if 8x8) at the same time. Their number seems to increase dinamically because the game slows down when there are too many of them. I'm tempted to disassemble it. He's XORing the characters to the screen and cycling through the characters to ...

What a waste! Just imagine what could have gone in there... extra levels, enemies, music... or maybe some code to prevent the enemies bunching up quite so much when a room starts!

Very cool! I loved this game as a kid. And this is an amazing conversion!

Good to see we're keeping up the new game per month schedule, too...

nbla000 wrote: During my fixing work, i've extracted the full hidden basic code in TXT form if someone need.

I'd love to see it, and a quick explanation of what you did to fix it!

Ah, of course! Thanks.

Awesome stuff! Great job disassembling the original -- in only a weekend!

I was curious to see how you compressed the mazes, so I had a quick flick through the source code. And now I'm more curious, as all I found was maze0. I'd be grateful if you shared your secrets!

High score table?

Wow, the perfect keyboard. IBM clicky feel, no numeric pad! I didn't know this existed. Must... have...

I think you mean SED. Here's the code to update a six digit timer in Blue Star: + clc lda updatecount adc #1 sta updatecount sed ldx #2 - lda gametime, x adc #0 sta gametime, x dex bpl - cld It's about the same as the code to update a three byte hex timer. Now here's the code for the display of that...

The 6502 also has a BCD mode. It's useful for displayable scores or timers in games. I used it for the timer in Blue Star.

Nice game! Very polished. I continue to be impressed by what you can do with 3.5k of BASIC.
Great title too!

http://www.lulu.com/content/1276727 See page 11. "Smith also wrote a game called Monster Muncher for the Commodore VIC-20, which was a blatant rip-off of the arcade classic Pac-Man. Monster Muncher was written for a new start-up software company. Written in BASIC, the game took him only a few h...