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Your "Pitfall" remake game would work on the 7800 nicely

Your "Pitfall" remake game would work on the 7800 nicely

 

You know I come from a pampered BASIC upbringing. Is there a good C compiler, toolchain, library and IDE for 7800?

 

A nice C dev environment plus the fact AtariAge can produce carts is real incentive to port Super Pitfall to the 7800.

You know I come from a pampered BASIC upbringing. Is there a good C compiler, toolchain, library and IDE for 7800?

 

I use "C" and my own custom library for sprites, palettes, sound, joystick and XM etc on the 7800. I also have bitmap conversion tools and other utilities to make life a bit easier during development. When the XM has shipped and I've cleared a few projects I'll be able to put some time towards documentation, examples, tutorials and then making a formal release of the system.

 

A nice C dev environment plus the fact AtariAge can produce carts is real incentive to port Super Pitfall to the 7800.

 

You don't really need an IDE for "C" I use my favourite efitor and make files so its all command line driven.

Ah, that's right. I heard about your libraries. I can be patient. Sort of

 

I'll have to desecrate the Sega Genesis with a port in the meantime.

I'll have to desecrate the Sega Genesis with a port in the meantime.

 

As long as you keep variable sizes to the minimum size needed for the value it has to hold then it shouldn't be too much trouble to convert/adapt the source for the 7800.

 

Is it a flip screen or 4 or 8 way scrolling kind of game?

There have been single screen versions of Super Pitfall as seen on the PC-88. Most, however, are like the CoCo3 version and allow smooth scrolling in all cardinal directions. Er, I'm too dense right now to figure out if 8 ways means diagonal scrolling. I've seen no limitation moving diagonal in the Coco3 or NES versions.

 

Without sprite rendering libraries I dunno how I could do a cc65 port. "Display list" is what I do when someone asks me what projects I've got half finished.

Any videos of the game in action?

I just posted an entry in the homebrew section to play the real deal:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/199389-super-pitifall-retro-demake-windowswine/

 

It's Windows 98SE on up. WINE friendly.