+atari2600land Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 Fred Jones has a problem. He woke up naked in the middle of a field. Which is too bad for him since he is supposed to be teaching a history class right about now. Luckily for Fred, he can shoot his rifle, which just happens to be the same color as his skin. Can you guide Mr. Jones back to the history class he should be teaching? Press the upper fire buttons to fire off in the direction Fred was last moving (like GoSub.) All I have done so far is the title screen song and a shooting test screen. Press 1 on the controller to get to the shooting test screen from the title screen. This is going to be an adventure game like Zelda or something, that is, if I can make it big enough. lemons3.rom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 12, 2017 Author Share Posted November 12, 2017 Added a few trees. The moving from screen to screen will be similar to Pitfall except it will be 3D. Added a second screen. Relearned you cannot name a variable "screen." I changed it to "screennumber." lemons4.rom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Wait, aren't you supposed to be making waffles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 I still am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 14, 2017 Author Share Posted November 14, 2017 Luckily for Fred, his overalls have been found. They're on screen 3. I will make it so you cannot pass screen 3 naked. lemons5.rom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 That's some interesting hyperdimensional geometry there, getting clotheslined on the base of a tree. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Also, where'd my clothes go? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) BTW, if this is an IntyBASIC game, you can add lines such as the following to embed some metadata about the game into the ROM file. (Requires the most recent jzIntv / AS1600 release to work w/ .ROM files.) . ASM CFGVAR "name" = "History Teacher Ate My Lemons" ASM CFGVAR "short_name" = "Teach Ate Lemons" ASM CFGVAR "author" = "atari2600land" ASM CFGVAR "release_date" = "2017-11-13" ASM CFGVAR "license" = "whatever" ASM CFGVAR "music_by" = "John Q. Composer" . Check out jzintv/doc/rom_fmt/id_tag.txt for the full list of supported tags. I should write up a more compact "HOWTO." The latest jzIntv includes another new tool, rom_metadata, that will print the metadata out. For example, here's what it prints out when I run it on "event_diag.rom": . $ rom_metadata event_diag.rom >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> Title : Event Diagnostics v1 Credits: Programming : Joe Zbiciak Date : 2006 Shortened Title : Event Diags v1 License : GPLv2+ << ---------------------------------------------------- << . It's kinda like ID3 tags for Intellivision ROMs. For the IntyBASIC snippet I gave above, rom_metadata reports: . >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> Title : History Teacher Ate My Lemons Credits: Programming : atari2600land Music : John Q. Composer Date : 2017-11-13 Shortened Title : Teach Ate Lemons License : whatever << ---------------------------------------------------- << . As you might've noticed, the date is variable resolution. It can be year, year-month, or year-month-day. Edited November 16, 2017 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 What did you use to make the YouTube videos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) You can record AVI files directly from jzIntv. On Windows, either Win+A or Win+V toggles AVI recording. On Mac, it's Cmd+A or Cmd+V. You can then upload the AVIs directly to YouTube. Edited November 16, 2017 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 I tried that and it didn't record AVIs for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) You need to be using a sufficiently recent jzIntv. The AVI recorder was added about a year ago. So, any "stable dev version" within the last year should have it. Naturally, I recommend the most recent release, as it has all manner of improvements, bug fixes, and so on. Note that the AVI file gets written to a file named "avi_XXXX.avi" in whatever directory you started jzIntv. If you're just launching jzIntv by dragging a ROM to a .BAT file in Windows—advice I saw in another thread—I have no idea what directory that will end up being unless the BAT file does a 'cd' to move the current directory. For all I know, it could be C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\. Edited November 16, 2017 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 Every time I press the Windows key, the dumb windows menu comes up. How do I get it to recognize that I want to use it in conjunction with jzINtv and NOT Windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) If you press and hold it and hit the second key in the combo, it should work. It's a 2-key combo, like Ctrl+C. The reason I bound both Win+A and Win+V to this is that one of them (and I can never remember which) doesn't work as well in Windows 10. I don't have any Windows 10 machines, so I can't really test. The newest Windows I have in the house is Win7. Edited November 16, 2017 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Alternately, the seriously weird sounding combos F8+A or F8+V should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) I'm using Windows 10. I pressed Win+A and the Action Center came up. Win+V seems to have no effect at all. F8+A and F8+V do nothing. Edited November 16, 2017 by atari2600land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) Are you running jzIntv from the command line, or are you using a launcher? Also, which build of jzIntv are you using? When jzIntv starts recording an AVI, it will print a message like this: . Started AVI file 'avi_0023.avi' . When you hit the key again, it'll print another message: . Done writing AVI Total frames: 1756 . You will only see those messages, though, if you launch jzIntv from the command line. If you use some other method to launch jzIntv, it may indeed be recording an AVI, and you just don't know it. Where those end up depends on what directory whatever launcher you're using sets as "current directory" when launching jzIntv. It could be the directory containing jzintv.exe, or it could be C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\, or C:\, or something else. You might also try F8+A or F8+V (as in, press-and-hold F8, and press either A or V) to trigger AVI recording. Why F8? It's a long and boring story that stretches back into the DOS era... You can also make a kbdhackfile to bind some other key to toggle AVI recording on/off. The action "AVI" toggles AVI recording. So, if you wanted to bind, say, F1 to toggle AVI recording, make a file containing the following: . MAP 0 F1 AVI MAP 1 F1 AVI MAP 2 F1 AVI MAP 3 F1 AVI . Then feed that file to jzIntv with the --kbdhackfile argument. See jzintv/doc/jzintv/kbdhackfile.txt for documentation on what events you can bind, and what actions you can bind them to. Edited November 16, 2017 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 I see your edit about F8+A and F8+V crossed my post. What build of jzIntv are you using? You need a stable dev build that's from within the last year or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 I'm using the most recent one. I made a .bat file that has the following in it to launch jzIntv: jzintv.exe -v1 lemons5.rom pause Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 OK. I got it working. I did the hackfile thing that made F1 start and end avi files. Sorry to bother you like that, but I don't know much when it comes to Windows innards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 By "the most recent one" do you mean jzintv-20171113-win32.zip or jzintv-1.0-beta4-win32.zip ? The 2017-11-13 build definitely supports AVI recording. Are you launching it from the command line or clicking the BAT file from the GUI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) OK. I got it working. I did the hackfile thing that made F1 start and end avi files. Sorry to bother you like that, but I don't know much when it comes to Windows innards OK, cool. I know less and less about Windows all the time. I don't have any Windows machines of my own, other than a $200 Dell refurb laptop I bought to make Windows jzintv builds. It barely runs Win7. Outside that, I only use Linux and Mac at home. My employer strongly discourages Windows, so I only use Linux and Mac there also. The newest Windows I've used is Win7. :-P Edited November 16, 2017 by intvnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) A short video of the game so far using jzINTV to record an AVI file. Edited November 16, 2017 by atari2600land 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 Oh no! A cyclops is blocking your path. Also added health meter. Can INTV handle having letters on every single character space? I've been having trouble using cls until I tried clearing the space with "/319", which is an undefined character, but does it count in terms of it displaying a letter? lemons6.rom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 Which do you like better? The former title screen or this new one I made using a picture of a real lemon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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