catsfolly Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 I think the best way to evaluate a tool is to try and do something with it. So, to try out Nanochess' IntyBasic compiler, I have written a version of "Clowns and Balloons" in it. The game is written in 100 % basic, and complete source code is included. clowns.zip Currently it is "beta" - everything functions, but it still needs tuning, and the levels are placeholders. (Some levels feature popular atariage celebrities (if they have short nicknames...)) It is pretty easy to stay alive, but difficult to clear the screen with a low bounce count. Please let me know what you think.... Catsfolly 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 This is completely amazing You should publish it with Collectorvision 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2930332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fushek Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 (edited) Looking good! I think that you need something (or someone) trying to stop you to make you loose lives. Maybe a stationary spike in the middle of the balloons that kills you if you hit it or, better yet, an MOB (maybe bird that pecks at you in the air) to add an element of of an adversary to the game. OR ... just limit the number of bounces that you are allowed and if you don't make it, you have to start over again! Just a thought ... Edited February 17, 2014 by Fushek 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2930538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsfolly Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 Looking good! I think that you need something (or someone) trying to stop you to make you loose lives. Maybe a stationary spike in the middle of the balloons that kills you if you hit it or, better yet, an MOB (maybe bird that pecks at you in the air) to add an element of of an adversary to the game. OR ... just limit the number of bounces that you are allowed and if you don't make it, you have to start over again! Just a thought ... Fushek - Thanks for checking out the game. I think you are right - it is definitely too easy to stay alive. The game needs something to make it harder.... Catsfolly Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2930557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsfolly Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 A short gameplay gif: Catsfolly 5 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2930608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 I'm a fan of the "Circus Atari" games so I'd like to see this become a fully realized game. As for adversaries, have you thought of Sharks with Frickin Lasers on their heads? That, of course, would turn it into an Austin Powers/Dr. Evil game though I suppose. Not sure that would work. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2930611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsuinnc Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 What a great job! I am hoping to do something with the IntyBasic and your code is great learning tool. As too making it harder, having the balloons alter the direction of the flyer and maybe random speed and direction when bouncing of the sides of the screen. Making the guys on the ground just a bit slower might also help. Of course, if you can't get the guys on the ground into the right position it might become very frustrating. random dropping prizes might tempt the player to run and catch the prize putting the flyer at risk. Sharks with lasers would be pretty cool 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2930628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Just when I had convinced myself to get rid of my INTV. Thanks a lot. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2930658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriceZ Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Quite amazing! Flicker-free graphics and great physics. I wonder if I should continue to learn CP1610 assembly language. With IntyBasic, it will be far easier to create a game. By the way, outstanding job by Nanochess. It will certainly give a boost to the Intellivision homebrew community . 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2931650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsfolly Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Quite amazing! Flicker-free graphics and great physics. I wonder if I should continue to learn CP1610 assembly language. With IntyBasic, it will be far easier to create a game. By the way, outstanding job by Nanochess. It will certainly give a boost to the Intellivision homebrew community . Well, if you really want to push the Intellivision to its absolute limits, you still need CP1610 assembly language. However, it looks like you can write some nice, high speed, games using only basic. Maybe games can be written in basic, and then the most time critical parts can be optimized in assembly? Catsfolly Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2932686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsfolly Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Okay - so maybe you want to try your hand at making games, but you're not ready to make a whole game yet? What to do? Why not make a new level for "Clowns and Balloons"? Here's how - 1. Near the end of the clowns.bas listing , you can find this code: REM round 10 rocket DATA $0000,$0005,$1100,$0000,$0000 DATA $02a0,$0805,$1111,$0000,$0000 DATA $0002,$0885,$1111,$1100,$0000 DATA $02a0,$0805,$1111,$1150,$0202 DATA $0000,$0005,$5555,$5550,$0000 REM blank DATA $0000,$0000,$0000,$0000,$0000 DATA $0000,$0000,$0000,$0000,$0000 DATA $0000,$0000,$0000,$0000,$0000 DATA $0000,$0000,$0000,$0000,$0000 DATA $0000,$0000,$0000,$0000,$0000 After round 10, there is a blank level. It consists and a data table filled with zeros. Each zero represents and balloon position. There are 5 rows of 20 zeros, which matches with the top 5 rows of the Intellivision screen. To enter some balloons, change the zeros to the numbers 1 to 9, or the letters a to f. What do these numbers mean? Earlier in the listing there is a color table: REM C_BLK EQU $0 ; Black REM C_BLU EQU $1 ; Blue REM C_RED EQU $2 ; Red REM C_TAN EQU $3 ; Tan REM C_DGR EQU $4 ; Dark Green REM C_GRN EQU $5 ; Green REM C_YEL EQU $6 ; Yellow REM C_WHT EQU $7 ; White REM C_GRY EQU $8 ; Grey REM C_CYN EQU $9 ; Cyan REM C_ORG EQU $A ; Orange REM C_BRN EQU $B ; Brown REM C_PNK EQU $C ; Pink REM C_LBL EQU $D ; Light Blue REM C_YGR EQU $E ; Yellow-Green REM C_PUR EQU $F ; Purple This table (from Joe Z.'s sdk) lists the color for each number or letter. As an example, we'll make a white box. The color for white is 7, so we'll enter some 7's ... REM round 10 rocket DATA $0000,$0005,$1100,$0000,$0000 DATA $02a0,$0805,$1111,$0000,$0000 DATA $0002,$0885,$1111,$1100,$0000 DATA $02a0,$0805,$1111,$1150,$0202 DATA $0000,$0005,$5555,$5550,$0000 REM blank DATA $0000,$7777,$7777,$7777,$0000 DATA $0000,$7777,$7777,$7777,$0000 DATA $0000,$7777,$7777,$7777,$0000 DATA $0000,$7777,$7777,$7777,$0000 DATA $0000,$7777,$7777,$7777,$0000 2. Next we need to change to balloon_init routine to read this table. Change this line temp = (round-1) % 10 to temp = (round-1) % 11 3. Change the code to play the new level first: Change line: round=1 ' start at round one to round=11 ' start at round one 4. Save the basic program and built it. intybasic clowns.bas clowns.asm as1600 -o clowns.bin -l clowns.lst clowns.asm 5. Finally, run the new program in your emulator: jzintv -z1 -v1 clowns.bin 6. Check out the new level: I'll make a few tweaks to the data and ... REM round 10 rocket DATA $0000,$0005,$1100,$0000,$0000 DATA $02a0,$0805,$1111,$0000,$0000 DATA $0002,$0885,$1111,$1100,$0000 DATA $02a0,$0805,$1111,$1150,$0202 DATA $0000,$0005,$5555,$5550,$0000 REM blank DATA $0000,$7777,$7447,$7777,$0000 DATA $0000,$7717,$7447,$7777,$0000 DATA $000a,$7111,$7447,$7227,$0000 DATA $0000,$7717,$7447,$7777,$0000 DATA $0000,$7777,$7447,$7777,$0000 Viola! We have a battery! Wow a battery! What could be cooler than that? What? What did you say? Lots of things are cooler than batteries? So you think you could do better buddy? You think you could do something more interesting? Yeah? I'd like to see you try! Seriously, please try.... Catsfolly 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2932697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Thanks for posting that, catsfolly! I'll try to get some time with the IntyBasic this week-end and maybe make a "Clowns & Balloons" level. -dZ. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fushek Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Hmmm ... I played the .bin file from the zip file above just fine. However, when I used the .bas file and went through and converted it to the .bin file, it says that it's playing the round, tries to draw the screen, and then says round complete without letting me play. Probably something wrong with my setup. I think that I need to download the latest and greatest of everything and start over again (and I was excited to see the screen that I designed!) 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 That looks very nice! 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Well, if you really want to push the Intellivision to its absolute limits, you still need CP1610 assembly language. However, it looks like you can write some nice, high speed, games using only basic. Maybe games can be written in basic, and then the most time critical parts can be optimized in assembly? Catsfolly Although IntyBASIC is a compiler, for most expressions and statements it generates very reasonable code, so it's near of assembly performance for most tasks. On the other way, if a programmer is good enough, he/she can take the generated assembler output and optimize it by hand. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fushek Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Ok ... got it working! I'm a week late for Valentine's day though . 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Ok ... got it working! I'm a week late for Valentine's day though . New Screen.jpg Awww... Fushek, We [heart] you too! Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeM_Intellivision Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Nice job catsfolly! 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsfolly Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) Ok ... got it working! I'm a week late for Valentine's day though . New Screen.jpg Cool! It looks like you got it all figured out. You need the latest (0.4) version of IntyBasic to compile the program. Good work! Edited February 22, 2014 by catsfolly Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) Here's my first attempt. I call this... Balloons vs. The Clowns Of Christmas Presents clowns.bas You must help the Ghostly Clown pop all the gift balloons. Enjoy! -dZ. Edited February 22, 2014 by DZ-Jay 7 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 That was a lot of fun! Thanks again, catsfolly, for doing this. -dZ. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeM_Intellivision Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 nice job all. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 At the behest of my wife, I've updated the Balloons vs. The Clowns Of Christmas Presents to compose the presents with solid blocks and make them look better. I've also updated the block exploding animation to fit. clowns.bas -dZ. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeM_Intellivision Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 nice - could see this turning into something like Stonix with many levels and level saves which would be awesome. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Awesome new levels fellas, nicely done. dZ, I love how your wife steps in and says, "hey, you can do better than that!" Lol! 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/#findComment-2933676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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