Denial

Faster again. m(

works great on real hardware. buttery smooth.

I was able to enter my hi-score with paddles.

nit-picking - but could you de-bounce the fire button for entering a letter as it easily enters two letters when you only wanted one.

beamrider wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:11 am nit-picking - but could you de-bounce the fire button for entering a letter as it easily enters two letters when you only wanted one.

Core is not bug free, I'm not hearing.
Maybe it is now… EDIT: nope.

We planned to bring on keyboard input.

pixel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:48 am We planned to bring on keyboard input.

I never understood why most Arcade-conversions go to the trouble of emulating the annoying high-score input by joystick which is just done this way on the Arcade-machines because they have no keyboard. By the way: Is the high-score table saved to disk?

tokra wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:06 am

pixel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:48 am We planned to bring on keyboard input.

I never understood why most Arcade-conversions go to the trouble of emulating the annoying high-score input by joystick which is just done this way on the Arcade-machines because they have no keyboard. By the way: Is the high-score table saved to disk?

Probably because they bombed the KERNAL area. Wouldn't want to deal with that ATVM either.

tokra wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:06 am By the way: Is the high-score table saved to disk?

A level editor would also be lovely. Sounds like too much overhead to a fed up coder.

Saving to disk would require a file selection, wouldn't it? I have no experience with saving scores.
Charset in action. (Press C in game on NTSC.)

pixel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:06 am Saving to disk would require a file selection, wouldn't it? I have no experience with saving scores.

Not really. If you alyways use the same filename like "hiscore", you could just load it in on startup (from last used device = $ba) and delete and save it under the same name after a player entered their name. Would not work for tape or cartridge that way, though.

pixel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:09 am A level editor would also be lovely. Sounds like too much overhead to a fed up coder.

Yeah, personally I think a high-score saving or keyboard input is a luxury I can easily live without. Much prefer to see it released sooner.

beamrider wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:17 pm Yeah, personally I think a high-score saving or keyboard input is a luxury I can easily live without. Much prefer to see it released sooner.

But… but… I can barely stop test-playing it anyway! :/
These tape files load at 5536 bits/s (PAL). Sadly not the right thing for durable releases. Am not having top equipment, so I'm impressed this works with all the wobbling and IRQ jittering. (I'm also too lazy to do the math.) AFAIR that's close to the point where the tape read low-pass filter is kicking in for good. In the end that means that a bit rate below 3kbit/s should be pretty safe (if recorded with something better than a c2n).

There's temptation to just plug in all levels, put the repo back online and to bugger off. The sensible part of the rest of my mind screams: "No tapes!".

Made it to round 12. Sometimes one can see blocks just disappearing. That's the only bug left I can spot. The game is too slow at times which can be fixed. Didn't feel like ~15 minutes really.

copei.de/arukanoido1666.webm

The game play seems to be sorted with this one. It's fast but not (really) unfair. It's just like the original. Everyone knows it, no-one ever got through it. Obstacles are 100pts now.
For the love of novelty this version of the tape loader takes the apex at 6kbit/s but I do not understand how the timing works.
Screens now also fade in and out which might show as flicker in your emulator. Very cheap special effect.

EDIT: Probably for the best if an established distributor would go for a physical release.

That is the maximum charset trouble. About 96 chars aren't even used.

I have to write it before I need an emergency dialysis: this game does not look like a piece of art.

No mo Vaus/ball color clashes.

EDIT: small bug fixes

nice, didn't notice the clash before but still plays smooth.

i don't much care for the flashing before a screen is shown. Even on a CRT it didn't look pleasing to my eyes. Reminded me of having a loose video cable