Caféman's Blog

Looks awesome sir! Keep up the great work and take my money now. ?

Really looking forward to this, though I do have it on the 5200 (literally bought one for this game).  It's a blast!

I’ll be buying this on release day for sure! Already have the 5200 version. 

Played it at PRGE yesterday... very nice!

Looking forward to this.

Have been watching (and testing) the initial demo of this game (for A 400/800/XL/XE) with LOTS of interest, since I found it beautifully presented and rendered on-screen. Pretty well done, so far.

 

However, I must warn that the renderings seem to suffer from the "green castle" syndrome (a product of modern NTSC decode). In other words, the Castle, its surroundings and even the ground appear all mostly green. It seems as if hues $0E,$0F were chosen as the color-basis, instead of $01,$02.

 

What happens is that in modern NTSC decode, the last HUE-row of Atari's color-matrix will not be rendered peach/brownish, as it used to be during the early 80's. Instead, they will lean toward moss, green-brown. For a possible correction of this, you may consider looking at Commando+/XE which also relies on depicting similar surroundings and elements, and for such their colors are rendered realistically on NTSC.

 

Just my 0.02c, for what seems to be a really nice title coming down the line!

Faicuai, in the above video, that is the Green castle. It is very green on purpose.    But if you are talking about Kingdom 1, we did originally use a ground color using I think $E4 and $E6, which in emulators looked more yellow or tan, but appeared more green on some sets I noticed.  Not long ago I changed these to be $14 and $16 to get a better yellow/ tan color for the Sand Kingdom.  I know the original demo I posted was still using the $Ex settings.