rpc_games Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Hi Guys, I was so pleased with myself that I had to show you the end of level anim (well screen shot). The background says WINNER and the red spheres are rotating around the WINNER while the 2 girls are doin' their thang ! The anim looks quite funny with no music but sound FX and music is last on the list. And YES, it's using our CMODE. Not much memory left for 64k users so hopefully I can squeeze our tracker routing in there as well. If not I'll have to cut the anim down to half. End of level music is so important. Pete Manager RPC-Games! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 You have me laughing. I never expected to see dancing girls in an Atari 8 bit game. (unless maybe if they were 8x8 characters). Are the red balls some pom-poms? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Is anyone else thinking that this guy is completely full of shit? -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Such effects have been done in demos and at somewhat higher resolution, so it's nothing out of the realms of possibility. The advantage of an 80x48 mode is that the memory use is under 2K per frame, so about 3840 bytes for 2 frames when doing a blended mode. Additionally, doing manipulation of objects means that large softsprites are entirely possible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Would be nice to see some *in game* shots rather than title screen and intermission stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I'd settle for an executable of either static screen... but my bet is still on the frameblended technique described elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Is anyone else thinking that this guy is completely full of shit? -Thom Well, having been a Jaguar owner since 95 I tend to think this of everyone. However, I then feel guilty about such things so always tend to give the benefit of the doubt. I have no stakes in this, so if we get a game cool, if not, none of my time has been wasted. That being said, I do tend to think there will be a release. If there isn't, you can all feel free to neg me and respond with a big "told you so!" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc_games Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 @ Stephen: Can I say I TOLD YOU SO now? hehehe Another 2 weeks and Centron 3D should be completed. Pete Such effects have been done in demos and at somewhat higher resolution, so it's nothing out of the realms of possibility. The advantage of an 80x48 mode is that the memory use is under 2K per frame, so about 3840 bytes for 2 frames when doing a blended mode. Additionally, doing manipulation of objects means that large softsprites are entirely possible. They certainly are 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc_games Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 @TSCHAK909: Some people just mouth off before they know the facts. UNBELIEVABLE ! And, No in game screen shots for 2 reasons. 1, I'm still working on the main code. 2, Don't want to spoil the surprise for true Atarians. Pete Manager RPC-Games! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariNerd Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Sporting, probably partly coincidentily, because of the available color options, what looks sort of like one of the new NASA Z-2 space-suit candidate designs. Nice touch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Health and Safety info! This is really going to be GREAT. @rpcgames Hehe ...what about this ... you are gaming... in the middle of centron 3D... players blood pressure is getting higher ad higher... you are just about to win... the temperature of the joystick is getting sky-high... your atari 8bit is enjoying every single second of this moment and then completely unexpected.... there is this message: YOU HAVE PLAYED THE GAME NOW FOR 4 HOURS... TIME FOR A REST! YOUR ATARI WILL SHUTDOWN FOR 24 HOURS NOW! NO MORE CENTRON 3D FOR YOU! That would be an awesome Health and Safety message 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Health and Safety info: "Warning - if you play this game on a CRT, it will flicker a lot and possibly induce undesirable effects on any epilepic people nearby." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 yup. have a look on PSX and Nintendo games warnings at boot time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 And, No in game screen shots for 2 reasons. 1, I'm still working on the main code. 2, Don't want to spoil the surprise for true Atarians. If you want to release a game in two weeks I would hope you guys are debugging and testing now instead of beeing in the middle of coding a (3D-) game engine. As for (2) this forum supports spoiler tags (although I do not know where to find them.. ) ) Considering these facts, you have to admit that people might think like tschak909. I am a very sceptical guy myself and the way you entered this forum with the game announcement "Best game ever on 8-Bit" makes me, well, sceptical As others said, I'd love to be proofen wrong. So DO IT Even if the game flickers like hell and I won't play it on my TV set, it might encourage NRV to make a real game with his "wolf engine" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 yup. have a look on PSX and Nintendo games warnings at boot time. In the 80's we had a TV commercial in The Netherlands, about Heinz Tomato Ketchup. There were two people (a man and a woman) eating fries and they were only looking at their plates. The voice asked: do you indeed prefer Heinz Tomato Ketchup above other brands? They answered: which other brands? Looked at each other, start giggling and continued eating. A zillion Heinz commercials on Youtube, but not this one (found another with Joey from friends!) That was the feeling I had when you started about Nintendo Atari only here 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc_games Posted June 17, 2014 Author Share Posted June 17, 2014 Health and Safety info! This is really going to be GREAT. @rpcgames Hehe ...what about this ... you are gaming... in the middle of centron 3D... players blood pressure is getting higher ad higher... you are just about to win... the temperature of the joystick is getting sky-high... your atari 8bit is enjoying every single second of this moment and then completely unexpected.... there is this message: YOU HAVE PLAYED THE GAME NOW FOR 4 HOURS... TIME FOR A REST! YOUR ATARI WILL SHUTDOWN FOR 24 HOURS NOW! NO MORE CENTRON 3D FOR YOU! That would be an awesome Health and Safety message @PROWIZARD: HAHAHAHAHA You crack me up !!!! Wouldn't that be something hehehehe @CreatureXL: Did I say "Best game ever on Atari 8-bit? Where did I say that. I must of had too many Jim Beams at the time if I did. I've never seen a game like Centron 3D with over 72 individual colours on a scan line before. If their is a game like that please let me know, and I'm not talking about a DEMO either. NRV's Wolf engine is truly magic and powerful. Pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 @CreatureXL: Did I say "Best game ever on Atari 8-bit? Where did I say that. I must of had too many Jim Beams at the time if I did. I've never seen a game like Centron 3D with over 72 individual colours on a scan line before. If their is a game like that please let me know, and I'm not talking about a DEMO either. NRV's Wolf engine is truly magic and powerful. You are right, I was too lazy to check the post. You haven't said that. And it wasn't your first post either. Guess your second. Now I use your real words: "We'll be pushing Antic, Gtia and the 6502 to it's limits and we'll be writing highly optimized 6502 code for the fastest 3D routines we can." http://atariage.com/forums/topic/224811-new-atari-8-bit-game-in-production-by-rpc-games/?do=findComment&comment=2979057 This came off quite bold considering what people have done on the 8-Bits so far. However, now when I read it more closely you said "we can". Then everything is OK. This way it doesn't say yours will be the best/fastest routines. From now on I try to hold back on comments until I see the prod. Oh and I really appreciate how you respond to (often harsh) critics. I would have gone through the roof more then once already 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Think about every great new technique that came out of the 8-bit community. what happened? For anything that wasn't the result of a question, it was literally: "Oh hey guys, I've found a way to flip the GTIA into an indeterminate state and cause a half cycle delay, it's producing a very unusual graphics mode, so a few of us did something with it. Here's a bin." "THIS IS AWESOME! Any info on it?" "Sure, we're sketching things out, we've posted what we know so far to (wiki/mailing list/etc)" And so it went, over and over, for APAC, TIP, HIP, all the page flipping modes... Versus: "HEY! WE'RE WRITING SOMETHING THAT WILL BE SO AWESOME, YOU'LL RENOUNCE YOUR FAITH IN JESUS!" "I'm an athiest, so ok. What's so awesome about this?" "WE'VE DISCOVERED A WHOLE NEW SUPER AWESOME MODE WITH OUR AWESOME PROGRAMMING SKILLS! WE'RE WRITING A GAME WE'LL RELEASE SOON, FOR $50!" "um. ok. You still haven't answered my question." "IT'S PROPRIETARY!" "um. ok...So when will this be out?" "SOON!" lather...rinse..repeat a few times... How many new and awesome techniques have been released to the 8-bit public, this way? Oh, right. NONE. So you can my skepticism, all laid out in painstaking detail -Thom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravard Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) I have just gotten back into playing with the 8-bit Atari's so I am not skeptical yet. I hope this turns out to be something fun for the scene. Yea I now. Noob. Edited June 18, 2014 by ravard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Thom, many understand what you say and yes, this has been the oddest and most secretive announcement of a game, there are those of us who would have liked to have seen a bootable version of those screens and since there's been no effort to do this many are as sceptical as you from what I am reading in their answers on here. BUT, Pete has announced the game will be ready in two weeks, if no game arrives then Pete will have shot himself in the foot, if there's sudden rewrites, delays etc etc then I suspect people will believe there never was a game BUT lets see, I for one will stand up and give a round of applause if the game turns out reasonably on time, I'll cheer if its as good as Pete says and of course I'll apologise for any negativity. I'm one of those people who says it as I see it, if I think someone is messing around I won't skirt around the bushes, I'll say it, if I'm wrong I'll apologise, I wish Pete was more open about the game and let us see some screens but its his game, he can do what he likes with it.....I'm just hoping he shocks us in a good way, people WILL remember those who have been having us on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Pete has announced the game will be ready in two weeks *Said with a cheeky smile* - Don't worry, Australians work through the night. ... our night. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 This is going to be interesting... /popcorn 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Well after tonight 2-3 Australia <> The Netherlands … Pete has enough time to complete the game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Well after tonight 2-3 Australia <> The Netherlands … Pete has enough time to complete the game. Lol. Exactly what I wanted to say I accept "two month after the World Cup" So, new deadline: 31.07.2014. GO! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc_games Posted June 18, 2014 Author Share Posted June 18, 2014 CENTRON 3D LEVEL 1 BACKDROP. - No more pics until the game is done now. Sorry guys. Thanks guys for the positive attitude, really appreciate it. I accept you can't please everybody but that's their loss, really. Oh, and I had nothing to do with the World Cup hehehehe. @ Sniklin: Your right their, I've been working late nights to get Centron 3D done. It should be done before 2 weeks , I'm hoping Now, back to programming. Hmmm. How do you print text on the screen again? Ummmm. Oh that's right ! 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" : GOTO 10 : REM SYS64738 run it, run it, run it !!!!!! This game is gonna rock ! Pete Manager RPC-Games! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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