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One meeeeeleean points!?

Millions of points.

 

Hurry up and wrap up Draconian in a few weeks so I can start hacking it into Sinistar! - Kidding... Nobody ever heard of this obscure game anyway. I'd call it done. - Still kidding...

 

I'm hoping the sounds are close to what I heard in MAME. It really had that Galaxian signature.

Have you heard the sound demo that goes through all the Galaga sounds on the 2600's TIA? (Wishing I could attach a .bin to blog posts.)

Don't know how the sound effects will turn out, I don't really have an ear for it. Do you want to try your hands at it?

I'm hoping the sounds are close to what I heard in MAME. It really had that Galaxian signature.

Have you heard the sound demo that goes through all the Galaga sounds on the 2600's TIA? (Wishing I could attach a .bin to blog posts.)

 

Post it in the forums then paste link to it here.

 

If Galaga sounds can be translated, then Bosconian should also work. Same hardware.

Amazing Galaga sounds and source .asm from a 3-time poster.

Brilliant sounds. Neat use of a byte to set most things except volume.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/214498-galaga-2600-sound-test/?p=2792201

does sound good. He used 2 bytes per note:

• 5 bits for duration (the T###_## constants like T150_16 range in value from 2 to 24)
• 3 bits for control + 5 bits for frequency selection

The TIA's audio control registers really uses 4 bits, but a number of the sounds are duplicated (4 & 5, 6 & 9, 12 & 13, etc) so 3 bits can be used to select from most of the unique sounds.

 

 

My driver uses 2 bytes per note as well:

• 3 bits for duration + 5 bits for frequency
• 4 bits for control + 4 bits for volume

Those do sound good! Bosconian doesn't have as much music in it, but getting the effects right will still be important.

 

0 and 1 are tunes, three is a fanfare, 4 thru 11 are effects, 12 thru 19 are samples (12 & 13 being explosions, and 14 a metallic echo, 15 thru 19 speech)

Just noting this out here.

Just wanted to wish you well continuing your Bosconian / Draconian project. Its in my top 5 for arcade games ever, with a great mix of offensive and defensive strategy that came with opening up the gameplay area to make flight as well as fight via options.

 

You should pop over to the Video Game Critic forum and let the gang there know what is coming down the pipeline from you. (Scotland)

Thanks!

Everything except the DPC+ ARM Development series is on the backburner at the moment. I had too many concurrent projects, which made it difficult to switch from one to another - I was spending too much time trying to get back up to speed whenever I switched between projects.

 

I started the DPC+ ARM series due to a request for help from another programmer, who wrote one of the top ten selling homebrews. He wants to use DPC+ with ARM for his next project. It's not far along, but already looks very slick.

Draconian's also on the backburner because I started working on a bus-stuffing scheme that'll make Draconian even better, I touch upon that here. I don't know how long it'll take to wrap up the DPC+ ARM series, nor do I know how long it'll take to develop the bus-stuffing scheme, so who knows when I'll get back to Draconian. As such, not much point in bringing it up over at the VGC forum.