Retrospect Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 (edited) TEXDEAL.zip Requires Extended Basic, and a sense of humour. Full instructions.txt This is a brand new, reworked and improved Texan Dealer. It now has a bank in Rio Grande City, where you can put money in your account with interest added each game day, a debt to pay off right at the start of the game ($2000, and each day you dont pay, interest is added on) ... there are new cities, and the cops bust you worse if caught with Cocaine! Read the new instructions (Quite a nicely put together textfile which explains in better detail all the things to do in Texan Dealer) Also included is a new option 6 to customise the screen and character colours, and the amount of days you play the game! It's basically Dopewars for your TI99 .... go on, give it a go! You won't be accused of taking drugs just because you played it! Edited October 28, 2012 by Retrospect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 (edited) If you were to pick your best Jackpot version for the Gameshelf website, which one would you suggest? I don't want to crowd the site with too many similar types of games, especially that you are now diversifying your interests Also, do you want Ghosthouse and Big Guns published as well? What about these games: Lego2, Biplane and Blitz? I may have to create a special Joe Morris section just for you! Are you sure you're not taking Ritalin or something? The site will be updated by tonight BTW. EDIT: err... OK this week before the Faire. I got side tracked by my experimentation with Forth. Damn you Willsy! Edited October 29, 2012 by Vorticon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 28, 2012 Author Share Posted October 28, 2012 If you were to pick your best Jackpot version for the Gameshelf website, which one would you suggest? I don't want to crowd the site with too many similar types of games, especially that you are now diversifying your interests Also, do you want Ghosthouse and Big Guns published as well? What about these games: Lego2, Biplane and Blitz? I may have to create a special Joe Morris section just for you! Are you sure you're not taking Ritalin or something? The site will be updated by tonight BTW. Hahaha .... I don't have what is called a usual sleep pattern .... that is for sure. Ok, for jackpot games I would definately love you to put up my Bar-X simulator (press 5 to insert coins) .... maybe Tombstone City jackpot too if we're stretching it ..... yes I'd like ghosthouse and Lego on there if you could .... Biplane would be good ..... I'm still working on Big Guns .... it needs a total overhaul of the game engine, the graphics are there but everything else is cookoo .... thanks Vorticon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 KB.zip KB - Kid Board. If you've got kids and they are bored ... let them attack this! 3 different effects settings, 10 notes, and nice visuals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Very nice. We'll see what happens once my 4 year old gets hold of it ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 Very nice. We'll see what happens once my 4 year old gets hold of it ... Hope he enjoys it Karsten. Our Jack is due to get up anytime now for his breakfast, I'll let him loose on it. Rachel won't be interested but Jack will, he loves the TI99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 (edited) BARX2.zip <-- press 5 to insert coin, c to collect coins, space to spin BIPLANE.zip <-- press space to drop bombs FURLONG.zip <-- use arrow keys and space to select LEGO2.zip <-- s&d left/right, space to drop brick, C to clear screen, U to Undo brick LUXOR.zip < space to spin reels MUNCH99.zip < space to spin reels OXO.zip < reasonably good tic tac toe game PRIZEFIGHTER.zip < pick a fighter and watch them go head to head SUB99.zip < using x,y coordinates, try to sink 4 subs before ammo runs out TERRAHAWKS.zip < very good tic tac toe game! texjack.zip < one of my first bandit games, space to spin reels TOMBJACK.zip < based on tombstone city. lovely little jackpot game FREEWAY.zip < 2 players with joysticks, first to get to top of screen 10 times wins My latest game, Freeway. Based on the game of the same name on the Atari VCS. This version has fast, smooth sprites with excellent coincidence detection. It's a right hoot! Coming Soon : Big Guns (Could be early 2013) Edited October 31, 2012 by Retrospect 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Wow ! Freeway is absolutely so freakin' clean. Great graphics. Great colors. Great sprites and movement. Spot on collision detection. Great sound. Loading time top notch. System requirement is just the ordinary old school (Great !). This looks and feels sooo delicious ! I don't know if the distribution of the obstacles is random of handpicked, but I learned I sometimes didn’t have “safe spots”. Nice. Too soon me (and my opponent) learned that you’d get pretty far by simply pushing the joystick up constantly. I would hope that with some effort you might be able to beat this (opponent holding joystick up). However I think some interest is lost at this point. The manual would clearly have to stress that a winner has to be pretty predictive and develop a sixth sense (practice makes perfect). If so, this will easily become one of the biggest selling cartridges from Texas Instrument in this godforsaken year of our Precious 1982 ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) cheers Karsten! Did it not run really slowly for you? Must be my computer! Hey I didn't realise about the "holding the joystick up" thing ... mmmm .... must look into that. Thanks for the great feedback also.... it's always appreciated The sprite positions are hand-picked, I made it so you couldn't really get into any "safe spot" positions. The collision detection is surprisingly good, I have to admit! I played Freeway on the Stella atari VCS emulator and thought "Why the hell is this not on the TI99 ?!" Also, I really have got to get to grips with Big Guns. I think I know what to do ... instead of massaging the code kindly given to me into my existing program, I'm going to redesign the graphics around the code given to me. Kind of like designing a car around an engine. Edited October 31, 2012 by Retrospect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) It’s running super smooth on my computer (two and half year old, midrange, stationary). Many 2600 games are on my list, and quite a few has had enhanced graphics and more features laid out. Up till about this point in time, they would probably all be Assembly projects in my book, but it seems you’re changing conditions. I think I had 37 cartridges (got the list somewhere) when I turned my 2600 in for something else (might have been a disk drive). I think you must forget about doing something to the obstacles and instead concentrate on penalty when doing something about the “holding joystick up”. Maybe if the player, after been pulled slightly backwards, is frozen and immune for 3 secs or something ? Rasmus came to visit my office, so I turned on Classic99 (which he demands in full screen). Kid Board He had to try out all combinations, and he did smile. I tried and have a go at Itsy Bitsy Spider, but I think it’s completely out of tune. Guess you didn’t look up musical tone frequencies !? Freeway Now this was much more fun. Assigning one joystick to both ports and just holding the up key and betting on which got to 10 first was fun. I added a bit of excitement along the way, continuously making different soundeffects and comments. Yes, he laughed, and wanted another go, - now the other one was supposed to win. A bit like Furlong (the horserace game), but more exciting - guess due to obstacles and better overview of progress. Well done, mate. Edited October 31, 2012 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 It’s running super smooth on my computer (two and half year old, midrange, stationary). Many 2600 games are on my list, and quite a few has had enhanced graphics and more features laid out. Up till about this point in time, they would probably all be Assembly projects in my book, but it seems you’re changing conditions. I think I had 37 cartridges (got the list somewhere) when I turned my 2600 in for something else (might have been a disk drive). I think you must forget about doing something to the obstacles and instead concentrate on penalty when doing something about the “holding joystick up”. Maybe if the player, after been pulled slightly backwards, is frozen and immune for 3 secs or something ? Rasmus came to visit my office, so I turned on Classic99 (which he demands in full screen). Kid Board He had to try out all combinations, and he did smile. I tried and have a go at Itsy Bitsy Spider, but I think it’s completely out of tune. Guess you didn’t look up musical tone frequencies !? Freeway Now this was much more fun. Assigning one joystick to both ports and just holding the up key and betting on which got to 10 first was fun. I added a bit of excitement along the way, continuously making different soundeffects and comments. Yes, he laughed, and wanted another go, - now the other one was supposed to win. A bit like Furlong (the horserace game), but more exciting - guess due to obstacles and better overview of progress. Well done, mate. hehe ... glad your having fun with Freeway. On my computer it was running very choppy and slow, but it was because my laptop needed a re-start! It's running like a dream now, really fast and smooth .... I've just been having a game with Jack and Rachel and they were laughing! What I should do, if i do anything with Freeway, is make the chicken go further back than it does when hit .... I think that would probably add to the tension whilst the other chicken gets further along .... might also make they're wings flap as well .... thats a simple CALL PATTERN command .... also probably need to further enhance background graphics. all good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 1 call clear 10 call char(100,"00073F7CF31F7CE58A8B651C0300000000E0FC1EC0F83EA6D1D1A638C0000000") 15 call char(64,"00073F78031F7C658B8B651C0300000000E0FC3ECFF83EA751D1A638C0000000") 20 call char(104,"00073F7CF31F7FF5CA8B651C0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEAED3D1A638C0000000") 25 call char(68,"00073F78031F7F75CB8B651C0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEAF53D1A638C0000000") 30 call char(108,"00073F7CF31F7FFFFACB651C0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEFEDFD3A638C0000000") 35 call char(72,"00073F78031F7F7FFBCB651C0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEFF5FD3A638C0000000") 40 call char(112,"00073F7CF31F7FFFFFFF651F0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEFEFFFFA6F8C0000000") 45 call char(76,"00073F78031F7F7FFFFF651F0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEFFFFFFA6F8C0000000") 50 call char(116,"00073F7CF31F7FFFFFFF7F1F0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEFEFFFFFEF8C0000000") 55 call char(80,"00073F78031F7F7FFFFF7F1F0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEFFFFFFFEF8C0000000") 56 call char(84,"00000000000003070E0F070300000000000000000000C0E0F0F0E0C000000000") 57 call char(88,"00000000000003070F0F070300000000000000000000C0E070F0E0C000000000") 60 randomize 80 call magnify(3) 90 call sprite(#1,100,2,120,120,#2,64,2,120,140) 92 call sprite(#3,84,5,120,120,#4,88,5,120,140) 100 x=int(15*rnd)+1 105 if x=9 then 1000 110 goto 100 1000 call pattern(#1,104)::call pattern(#2,68) 1010 call pattern(#1,108)::call pattern(#2,72) 1020 call pattern(#1,112)::call pattern(#2,76) 1030 call pattern(#1,116)::call pattern(#2,80) 1040 call pattern(#1,112)::call pattern(#2,76) 1050 call pattern(#1,108)::call pattern(#2,72) 1060 call pattern(#1,104)::call pattern(#2,68) 1065 call pattern(#1,100)::call pattern(#2,64) 1070 goto 100 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Looks good. Nice animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) Looks good. Nice animation. 80 call magnify(4) 90 call sprite(#1,100,2,120,120,#2,64,2,120,160) 92 call sprite(#3,84,5,120,120,#4,88,5,120,160) Try that too, insert into existing code Edited October 31, 2012 by Retrospect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Looks good. Nice animation. Try this 1 call clear::randomize::call magnify(4)::call sprite(#1,100,2,50,120,#2,64,2,50,160,#3,84,5,50,120,#4,88,5,50,160) 2 call sprite(#5,120,2,80,140,#6,124,2,100,140) 10 call char(100,"00073F7CF31F7CE58A8B651C0300000000E0FC1EC0F83EA6D1D1A638C0000000") 15 call char(64,"00073F78031F7C658B8B651C0300000000E0FC3ECFF83EA751D1A638C0000000") 20 call char(104,"00073F7CF31F7FF5CA8B651C0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEAED3D1A638C0000000") 25 call char(68,"00073F78031F7F75CB8B651C0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEAF53D1A638C0000000") 30 call char(108,"00073F7CF31F7FFFFACB651C0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEFEDFD3A638C0000000") 35 call char(72,"00073F78031F7F7FFBCB651C0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEFF5FD3A638C0000000") 40 call char(112,"00073F7CF31F7FFFFFFF651F0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEFEFFFFA6F8C0000000") 45 call char(76,"00073F78031F7F7FFFFF651F0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEFFFFFFA6F8C0000000") 50 call char(116,"00073F7CF31F7FFFFFFF7F1F0300000000E0FC1EC0F8FEFEFFFFFEF8C0000000") 55 call char(80,"00073F78031F7F7FFFFF7F1F0300000000E0FC3ECFF8FEFFFFFFFEF8C0000000") 56 call char(84,"00000000000003070E0F070300000000000000000000C0E0F0F0E0C000000000") 57 call char(88,"00000000000003070F0F070300000000000000000000C0E070F0E0C000000000") 58 call char(120,"0001010000000000000404030000000000000080808040404048083000000000") 59 call char(124,"000000000000000000100F030000000000000000000000000008F0C000000000") 60 call char(128,"000000000000000000031F0703000000000000000000000000C0F8E0C0000000") 61 call char(132,"000000000000000000071F0F07000000000000000000000000E0F8F0E0000000") 100 x=int(15*rnd)+1::if x=9 then 1000 101 if x=4 then 1030 102 if x=15 then 1070 110 goto 100 1000 for l=104 to 116 step 4::call pattern(#1,l,#2,l-36)::next l 1010 for l=112 to 100 step-4::call pattern(#1,l,#2,l-36)::next l 1020 goto 100 1030 GOSUB 1200::CALL SAY("HELLO")::GOSUB 1210 1060 goto 100 1070 GOSUB 1200 1080 call say("I")::GOSUB 1210 1100 GOSUB 1200::CALL SAY("AM")::GOSUB 1210 1120 GOSUB 1200::CALL SAY("A")::GOSUB 1210 1140 GOSUB 1200::CALL SAY("COMPUTER")::GOSUB 1210 1160 CALL PATTERN(#6,124)::GOTO 100 1200 for l=124 to 132 step 4::call pattern(#6,l)::next l::RETURN 1210 for l=132 to 124 step-4::call pattern(#6,l)::next l::RETURN 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Nice. Try this one. 100 call clear::call screen(5)::call color(4,2,16) 110 CALL CHAR(40,"0000000000000F3F000000000000F0FC000001010303030300008181C3C3C3C3") 120 CALL CHAR(44,"00008080C0C0C0C00303030301010000C3C3C3C381810000C0C0C0C0808") 130 CALL CHAR(48,"3F0F000000000000FCF") 140 CALL CHAR(56,"F8E0C0808F1F39311F070301C1E0F0F0333F3F9F8FC0E0F8F0F0F0E1C103071F") 150 e$=" () () *89+89,-:;.:;/ 01 01 "::for n=0 to 3::s$(n)=rpt$(seg$(e$,n*7+1,7),4)::next n 160 for n=0 to 23::display at(n+1,1):s$(n and 3); ::next n 170 goto 170 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) Somehow became an early study into Cookie Monster Invaders (Muppets). Add this for a bit of animation ... 170 call sound(80,110,30)::call color(4,2,2) 180 call sound(1200+rnd*400,110,30)::call color(4,2,16)::goto 170 Edited October 31, 2012 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 nice code there mate, they don't teach us that in the extended basic book ... hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 Kid Board He had to try out all combinations, and he did smile. I tried and have a go at Itsy Bitsy Spider, but I think it’s completely out of tune. Guess you didn’t look up musical tone frequencies !? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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