Heaven/TQA Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Guys, here is the first public release candidate. Thanks to Parallels, Windows 7 and Tebe's PC Packer I was able to link all the stuff together... packing not yet possible but I have not figured out why (packed game does not load proper). Please let me know if everything runs fine esp. on real machines... sample will be improved and there are some gfx small bits and pieces I want to fix in the main game... esp. some improvements in the sound fx, too. Credits so far - Game: Jeff Minter - Llamasoft-Logo Conversion: STE'86 - G2F title screen: Tezz - Title Music: Miker - Manual Music: Miker README.XEX.zip gridrunner_linked.xex.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 I tried this on my 130XE (PAL) 1050 drive on a Mydos 4.53 with mypicodos menu: got to the title screen then just black after loading noise. [edit saw 1 sheep before] Tried straight binary load from mydos itself and got garbage on screen after load [edit - 1 sheep before and 2 after] Another thing, please can you make the load after the title screen on fire aw well/instead of a key press, you have to use a joystick for most games and it's a pain to get up and press a key if you don't have the atatri in front of you... there are loads of games like this take note authors :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 verry impressive title screen but where is all that nice graphics gone during the gameplay? the same goes for music why after game over title screen is not shown any more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patjomki Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Guys, Please let me know if everything runs fine esp. on real machines... sample will be improved and there are some gfx small bits and pieces I want to fix in the main game... esp. some improvements in the sound fx, too. Here are my test results: ATARI 800XL (PAL), 1MB RAM, STEREO-POKEY, QMEG-OS: ================================================== Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. distorted sound -> erm, well black screen Altirra 1.5, PAL, 128KB, XL-OS: =============================== Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. no sound -> same as above black screen atari++ 1.58, PAL, XL-OS: ========================= Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. Sample played: "gridrunner" -> O.K. Highscore menu -> O.K. pressed start -> O.K. game plays -> O.K. Atari800Win Plus 4.0, PAL, 64KB, XL-OS: ======================================= Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. Sample played: "gridrunner" -> O.K. Highscore menu -> O.K. pressed start -> O.K. game plays -> O.K. The game is fun. Definitely plays better than the XL version. Really looking forward for the final version, although the sample really has to be improved. Regards, patjomki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Borrowing same format: Here are my test results: ATARI 1200XL (NTSC), 256K RAM, 800XL OS ================================================== Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. black screen ATARI 1200XL (PAL), 256K RAM, 800XL OS ================================================== Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. black screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 verry impressive title screen but where is all that nice graphics gone during the gameplay? This is a port of a VIC20 game. The fancy title screen is a nice bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 Thanks. Will Look into it. DOS loading will Not work As the Vic 20 Game Code Takes $1000-$1e00. But i will Write a mem relicator. So First try Game DOS. Guys, here is the first public release candidate. Thanks to Parallels, Windows 7 and Tebe's PC Packer I was able to link all the stuff together... packing not yet possible but I have not figured out why (packed game does not load proper). Please let me know if everything runs fine esp. on real machines... sample will be improved and there are some gfx small bits and pieces I want to fix in the main game... esp. some improvements in the sound fx, too. Credits so far - Game: Jeff Minter - Llamasoft-Logo Conversion: STE'86 - G2F title screen: Tezz - Title Music: Miker - Manual Music: Miker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 Interesting that altirra does Not load either... Guys, Please let me know if everything runs fine esp. on real machines... sample will be improved and there are some gfx small bits and pieces I want to fix in the main game... esp. some improvements in the sound fx, too. Here are my test results: ATARI 800XL (PAL), 1MB RAM, STEREO-POKEY, QMEG-OS: ================================================== Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. distorted sound -> erm, well black screen Altirra 1.5, PAL, 128KB, XL-OS: =============================== Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. no sound -> same as above black screen atari++ 1.58, PAL, XL-OS: ========================= Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. Sample played: "gridrunner" -> O.K. Highscore menu -> O.K. pressed start -> O.K. game plays -> O.K. Atari800Win Plus 4.0, PAL, 64KB, XL-OS: ======================================= Title screen with sheep -> O.K. Rainbow animation -> O.K. Title screen with plane -> O.K. Sample played: "gridrunner" -> O.K. Highscore menu -> O.K. pressed start -> O.K. game plays -> O.K. The game is fun. Definitely plays better than the XL version. Really looking forward for the final version, although the sample really has to be improved. Regards, patjomki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Just tried on my PAL ATARI 130XE (1MB RAM, STEREO, QMEG 4.04) and it hangs up right after title. Strange click occures and then screen stays black and nothing else happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 Re Fire. On my list. As i patched anyway the F1toStart Key i can add Fire Button check there. I tried this on my 130XE (PAL) 1050 drive on a Mydos 4.53 with mypicodos menu: got to the title screen then just black after loading noise. Tried straight binary load from mydos itself and got garbage on screen after load Another thing, please can you make the load after the title screen on fire aw well/instead of a key press, you have to use a joystick for most games and it's a pain to get up and press a key if you don't have the atatri in front of you... there are loads of games like this take note authors :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Re Fire. On my list. As i patched anyway the F1toStart Key i can add Fire Button check there. I asked the same enhancement for Metagalactic Llamas but you replied no because the original game is not started by fire... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Re Fire. On my list. As i patched anyway the F1toStart Key i can add Fire Button check there. I asked the same enhancement for Metagalactic Llamas but you replied no because the original game is not started by fire... I asked more nicely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 well... could be build was already finished, could be I missed that feature... But I am in process of "learning"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiassofT Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Just tried on my PAL ATARI 130XE (1MB RAM, STEREO, QMEG 4.04) and it hangs up right after title. Strange click occures and then screen stays black and nothing else happens. Same here (with 64k PAL 800XL, stock XL OS). I fired up my Turbo Freezer at the black screen, the Atari is spinning at $3040/3042, waiting for $D4 to become zero (but it seems to be $10 all the time). so long, Hias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 Thanks, Hias, maybe this help to track down the issue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 POKEY timers are frozen because initialization mode is on: Altirra> .pokey AUDF1: 03 AUDC1: f8 Output: 0 AUDF2: 00 AUDC2: 00 Output: 0 AUDF3: 00 AUDC3: 00 Output: 1 AUDF4: 00 AUDC4: 00 Output: 1 AUDCTL: 01, 17-bit poly, 15KHz SKCTL: 00 SERIN: 00 SEROUT: ff (done) IRQEN: 01, timer1 IRQST: f7, sertrans ALLPOT: 00 Command line: negated Turning POKEY's clocks back on (e skctl 3) fixes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Thanks. Will Look into it. DOS loading will Not work As the Vic 20 Game Code Takes $1000-$1e00. But i will Write a mem relicator. So First try Game DOS. I also tried Fenders' 3 sector menu and still got blank screen after the inital graphics (130XE PAL, 1050 drive). Stupid question but what is Game DOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 "game dos" are these tools where you can write a menu-loader on disc where you only press a,b,c, etc to start software like game, demo etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 "game dos" are these tools where you can write a menu-loader on disc where you only press a,b,c, etc to start software like game, demo etc... So the Fenders 3 sector is a 'game dos' and it didn't work... has anyone got Grid Runner working on a 130XE (PAL) :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 22, 2010 Author Share Posted April 22, 2010 (edited) can someone please check this build of the game in Altirra if it still hangs and if this runs on PAL machines? it should... sample_init sei lda #<sample_start sta sample lda #>sample_start sta sample+1 lda #[>sample_end->sample_start] sta sample_size ; sample size in 256 byte pages lda #1 ;1 ; 0=POKEY 64KHz, 1=15KHz sta AUDCTL lda #3 ;3 ; ~64KHz clock 16 = ~4Khz timer, ~15KHz clock 4 = ~4KHz sta AUDF1 ; in timer 1 lda #$f0 ; test - no polycounters + volume only sta AUDC1 lda #1 sta IRQEN ; enable timer 1 lda #0 sta sample_nybble ; initialize nybble ldx #$f8 stx sample_value ; an initial sample value (with no polycounters + volume only bit) lda #$70 wait3 cmp VCOUNT bne wait3 ; sync to a scanline lda #0 sta SKCTL lda #3 sta SKCTL ; test - reset pokey and polycounters sta STIMER ; start timers cli rts irq pha ;play sample lda sample_value sta AUDC1 tya pha ldy #0 sta IRQEN lda #1 sta IRQEN eor sample_nybble sta sample_nybble beq irq1 lda (sample),y lsr lsr lsr lsr bpl irq2 irq1 lda (sample),y and #$0f inc sample bne irq2 inc sample+1 dec sample_size bne irq2 tya sta IRQEN beq irq3 irq2 ora #$f0 irq3 sta sample_value ;lda #0 ;sta $d20e ;lda $d209 ;sta 764 ;lda #$40 ;sta $d20e pla tay pla rti Edited April 22, 2010 by Heaven/TQA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted April 22, 2010 Author Share Posted April 22, 2010 and here is the attachment... gridrunner.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Works on Altirra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patjomki Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Works on 800XL (PAL), 1meg, Stereo-POKEY, QMEG-OS, too (loaded with ApeQt 0.6). Regards, patjomki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 If you're just doing ~ 4 KHz samples in the foreground with no other processing needed, why not just use wait loops with VCOUNT? You save a whole bunch of coding and all you need is to LDY VCOUNT/WAIT CPY VCOUNT/BEQ WAIT (twice). Of course, you probably end up with a greater difference between PAL/NTSC since the ratio of scanline rate is more than the two master clock ratios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Works here too. I second better sample quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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