Pole Position - Atari (Fixed Checkered Flags)

[TIX]

I like it! way better

using overlap like in first at top you could put that in lowish center of second explosion and see if does something.

 

..can you explain ?

[+MrFish]

OK, so here's the 13 frame explosion animation.

 

 

 

[+MrFish]

And here it is faster.

 

Edited November 6, 2018 by MrFish

[+MrFish]

Here's a version with the Fuji Speedway screen using hi-res text.

 

 

Pole Position (Atari, Title, Fuji-HR Text).xex

 

[+Stephen]

Much better in hi-res! Background looks garish in PAL though.

[peteym5]

Could the explosion animation be shifted left and right one pixel at 60 frames per second, adding a flickering fuzzy effect?

Edited November 7, 2018 by peteym5

[+MrFish]

Much better in hi-res!

 

I like the hi-res too, but there's a limitation with placement of the text vertically, since Graph2Font

uses only character modelines and P/M's need to be used for any modelines converted to hi-res.

So basically that's why you see more vertical space between the text in this hi-res version, which

is not how I'd prefer to have it. It's a compromise...

 

 

Background looks garish in PAL though.

 

Yep, I haven't posted anything specific for PAL systems yet. I'll work on that last...

 

Meanwhile, here's how the proportional hi-res text version looks:

 

Edited November 7, 2018 by MrFish

[Rybags]

You could fit "miles" in there now... "mi." as an abbreviation is annoying IMO.

[TIX]

 

I did some more checking, and there's more scaling going on than the above GIF shows.

I counted at least 8 different scaling frames, for a total of 13 frames. There may be more.

But, the main point is that all 8 sprites on the Atari could be used, rather than just 5.

 

Unfortunately from the third frame onward I use the full width/high of the sprite, so no room for expanding.. only minor tweaks possible.

I can start smaller and maybe add two frames more at the start of the cycle but I see two problems with that:

• the explosion will start smaller than the car (if I had black available I would make the car visible but..)
• it will spoil the start of the animation sequence (1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2) which now is spot on (I think)

So I will squeeze the existing frames in game and we take it from there

[TIX]

mmmm maybe.. I just thought of something

[TIX]

ok

two more frames with the car visible.. is that better ?

hmm the explosion needs to be smaller yet..

Edited November 7, 2018 by TIX