Denial

Superb Mike. I'll take time to digest the source code and I'm sure I'll learn a lot!

This method takes away 2K just for a constant definition of the character set, and then you still have to add in the screen data. Not a problem with memory extension and if not one load for the splash screen then one load for the game. IMO, using a bitmap (like MINIGRAFIK/MINIPAINT) or doing 'spars...

Hi, This thread got me thinking... If we think about poxels in general, for black and white there are 16 possible combinations, which already exist in the VIC. Let's say we make a custom defined char set in multi-color so our poxels can now be 4 colors instead of two (background, frame, auxiliary + ...

hawk wrote:The ultimate goal is to allow GIMP to write Minigrafik files directly, reading them is just the first stage in learning how to program GIMP plugins.

I got drool all over my keyboard now. Who do I send the bill to?

Hello,

I don't know if it is just with me, but this forum doesn't really work anymore under Chrome (have to reload almost every page, images broken, can't post) and under Internet Explorer I don't see anymore the categories that have new posts in color. Anyone else?

Phil

'm trying to setup a vertical scrolling screen, but smoothly using HPOS==0 to delay the screen by the extra line to get single line position.. This works fine, and very well.. I didn't know this was possible. Could you please let me know where I could find more info on this? Also, is it also possib...

Mike wrote:

I was not talking about a full-screen bitmap. Just the characters around the player position must be taken care of.

Yes I got that. I think a fully bit-mapped screen would be too slow anyway.

Thanks. I understand what you mean. I was hoping some overlay using scan might have been possible to avoid forcing the user to go to hi-res altogether but maybe I'm just dreaming!

RJBowman wrote:Did you plan to use multi-color for your scrolling game?

In my case yes, but I want to provide an "open source toolkit" that would allow both if possible

Sorry, it seems I am not able to explain properly what I mean. I want to skip redefining characters for mid positions for everything that is part of the decor, while having scrolling smoother than full character. Here's a crude example, using only native characters. https://www.box.com/s/w7mgceimlg7...

a) Does it already exist? Depends. Horizontal scrolling is not too unusual in VIC-20 games. Examples: Splatform , Level edit (also vertical), Dragonwing , ... I'm thinking about an "open source" tool more than a single game. A tool to make platform programming easy, even in basic. b) Any ...

Thanks Mike!

Hello, There are not many platform games in the SuperMario style on the VIC and I think that the lack of an easy and fast tool for scrolling might be the main reason for it. Please let me know if something similar exists, but I'm thinking about developing something like this: 1- Move the whole scree...

I've been playing Super Mario Bros. The entire game is pretty much scripted. The enemies and obstacles are entirely predictable. I feel like this gives the designer complete control over the experience. I think that non-random is better for long games (it takes hours to go through Mario) while shor...

Ghislain wrote: When all is said and done, I'll probably put out a games anthology that can be run from a uIEC device, emulator, or on multiple floppy disks.

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