cdoty Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Can I sign up for one now? Wow, that's looking amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAdderSF Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 (edited) Can I sign up for one now? Wow, that's looking amazing! Eventually we will have a mailing list set up for potential customers. At that time, I'll certainly make a post about it here. In the mean time, the French website Pockett.net has posted a preview write-up of Zaku, based on the author's experience with the game at the Retrogaming Connexion last month. AtariAge visitors from France may find it especially interesting... --- Pockett.net previews Zaku --- Edited November 9, 2007 by Clean Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Guh! I totally forgot... happy birthday, TailChao! Hope it's not too late to wish you the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailChao Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 Guh! I totally forgot... happy birthday, TailChao! Hope it's not too late to wish you the best! Thanks a bunch for the good wishes, Jess. I appreciate all of the positive comments in the thread too. Hopefully I'll have time to update the website soon with some more recent screenshots and links, work is piling up again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAdderSF Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Thank-you for your continued interest in and support of Zaku, everyone. We're very happy to have the opportunity to bring a great, new game to the Lynx - and to further reflect that, the Super Fighter Team website has today been expanded to include a brand new set of Zaku pages that are full of updated information and art assets. Check it out @ www.zaku-lynx.com ! While you're there, we invite you to join our Zaku mailing list. This way, even if you don't have the chance to regularly visit the website for news and updates, you will still be informed as to the game's progress and, ultimately, when it will be available for purchase. As always, your feedback is appreciated as we value the input of our customers and fans. Thanks for your attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocket Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Can't wait for the release ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segataritensoftii Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Thank-you for your continued interest in and support of Zaku, everyone. We're very happy to have the opportunity to bring a great, new game to the Lynx - and to further reflect that, the Super Fighter Team website has today been expanded to include a brand new set of Zaku pages that are full of updated information and art assets. Check it out @ www.zaku-lynx.com ! While you're there, we invite you to join our Zaku mailing list. This way, even if you don't have the chance to regularly visit the website for news and updates, you will still be informed as to the game's progress and, ultimately, when it will be available for purchase. As always, your feedback is appreciated as we value the input of our customers and fans. Thanks for your attention. Are you going to put the video and playable demo back up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaguar_fan Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Thank-you for your continued interest in and support of Zaku, everyone. We're very happy to have the opportunity to bring a great, new game to the Lynx - and to further reflect that, the Super Fighter Team website has today been expanded to include a brand new set of Zaku pages that are full of updated information and art assets. Check it out @ www.zaku-lynx.com ! While you're there, we invite you to join our Zaku mailing list. This way, even if you don't have the chance to regularly visit the website for news and updates, you will still be informed as to the game's progress and, ultimately, when it will be available for purchase. As always, your feedback is appreciated as we value the input of our customers and fans. Thanks for your attention. I am signed up now for the mailing list. Let´s see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogeek Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Post some videos already! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAdderSF Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Are you going to put the video and playable demo back up? At some point, there will be a video available, yes. And, the game will make playable appearances at any of the classic gaming venues that I personally attend. As for the playable demo? I can't speculate on that right now. Thanks for your interest, everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocket Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 A new video of Zaku was shown at the RGC 2008, as usual, people were impressed by the game ! Here we go with pics taken from the video, a nice selection of boss http://www.pockett.net/news.php?id=3909 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitone Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 The lynx community really needs initiatives like this to keep the scene alive. This game is looking very impressive. As for other development, we have to make the threshold as low as possible for people joining in. Would you mind sharing some code bits that I would like to take a peek at like the drawing and scrolling code? prettymuch anything that interfaces with suzy would be welcome and very helpfull. If not, could you at least outline your strategy at tackling the drawing code? what decisions you made, and why? Keep up the great work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailChao Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 A new video of Zaku was shown at the RGC 2008, as usual, people were impressed by the game ! Here we go with pics taken from the video, a nice selection of boss http://www.pockett.net/news.php?id=3909 Thank you very much for the article, Pocket. I'm glad everyone enjoyed the video at RGC. The lynx community really needs initiatives like this to keep the scene alive. This game is looking very impressive. As for other development, we have to make the threshold as low as possible for people joining in. Would you mind sharing some code bits that I would like to take a peek at like the drawing and scrolling code? prettymuch anything that interfaces with suzy would be welcome and very helpfull. If not, could you at least outline your strategy at tackling the drawing code? what decisions you made, and why? Keep up the great work. Thanks for the positive complements. I'm not sure what you mean about making the threshold lower. The official Epyx Lynx documentation has been available for years, and there's not much left to note about the hardware besides a few drawing bugs in Suzy, most of which are properly emulated in Handy. Several assembly and C examples for drawing sprites and generally working with the hardware are also available, so there's nothing about Suzy that's in the dark. Since this is a commercial project, I cannot share any code. However, the decisions we've made with Zaku in terms of drawing aren't very different from those made by Lynx developers back in the early 90s. We're taking advantage of Suzy's sprite-linking and reloading capabilities to draw large amounts of graphics (such as backgrounds) with little overhead, and utilize the display world to simplify scrolling. In cases where we need more colors onscreen, such as Marine Zone and Thunder Zone, we utilize raster interrupts though the use of a line counter (by creating a "duplicate" HBlank timer and using it to clock another timer which interrupts the CPU when it empties out/passes by a certain number of lines). I hope it's not very disappointing to you, but there's not much new here programatically, only in application. I hope this has been helpful and informative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Smeghead Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 This game's looking really promising! Very nice, colorful graphics. I look forward to seeing it in action. Thanks for supporting the Lynx and good luck in getting it completed! Cheers, Smeg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitone Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I really have to look at the epyx documentation closely sometime. The whole suzy chip functions and driving that baby properly are really not clear in my head yet. I was already thinking of creating some gradients in the background by having 1 or two palette colors used exclusively for background graphics/gradients or something like animated water by cycling colors, and creating the gradient by changing the palette during the H-blank period after a certain number of lines. Im sure things will fall into place in my mind eventually. Great to see that you respond so quickly, and confirm some of my own thoughts. If I ever have any specific questions I'll drop you a line. Im sure I'll run into a few quircks once I start coding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAdderSF Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Thanks, guys, for your continued interest and support. We appreciate it greatly. Special thanks to the Retro-gaming Connexion team in France: Merci, mes amis; we'll see you again in 2009! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I saw the video at the RGC and... Wow... I haven't play yet all homebrew releases, but for my opinion, only based on video not gameplay, Zaku is like Alpine Games in an other category, playing with top quality games from Atari era... If the gameplay is as good as the video suggest, we have a future hit. Great work, guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocket Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 A new video of Zaku was shown at the RGC 2008, as usual, people were impressed by the game ! Here we go with pics taken from the video, a nice selection of boss http://www.pockett.net/news.php?id=3909 Thank you very much for the article, Pocket. I'm glad everyone enjoyed the video at RGC. No problem. After the video, I heard people asking "is this game running on a Lynx ?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 On sunday, someone told me he thought it was a Jaguar game while looking at video As he was a big Genesis fan, he add to check into some magazine to compare Lynx with Genesis, because he couldn't believe that the Lynx was able to perform this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STGuy1040 Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Would someone mind posting the link to the video? I can't seem to find it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAdderSF Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Would someone mind posting the link to the video? I can't seem to find it! The video they are referring to was created specifically for a one-time showing at this year's Retro-gaming Connexion in Congis-sur-Thérouanne, France. We will, however, be preparing a new video in the near future, to be released to the public. Thank-you for your interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedenLynxer Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 The new screen shots looks very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAdderSF Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 The new screen shots looks very nice! Thank-you. I'm glad you like them. For those of you who may not yet seen them yet, we've posted new Zaku screenshots to the official website. If you'd like to be kept informed about the game, please join the Zaku mailing list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriz Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Looks very good !! Best of luck with this project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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