JOD-I Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 I love asteroids type games and was wondering if there is a way to get either a disk image or bin image of the game AsTIroids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 I think I downloaded a working bin from the following thread. Also I'm moving forward on a ferocious Asteroids clone. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOD-I Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 Found the file that works. Thank you so much! I would be greatly interested to see your ferocious Asteroids clone and of course if you have paypal I would be willing to spend a little cash on it if it seems fun enough to play 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) 42 minutes ago, JOD-I said: Found the file that works. Thank you so much! I would be greatly interested to see your ferocious Asteroids clone and of course if you have paypal I would be willing to spend a little cash on it if it seems fun enough to play Thanks! A "like" is more than enough. I notice these things. I'm more onto my Miniature Golf right now, but I'll definitely do "something" on Asteroids too. Edited December 13, 2019 by sometimes99er 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOD-I Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) Wow that looks awesome. Will it have UFOs as well? Here are the working images of AsTIroids that work on the classic 99 emulator. astiroids.dsk ASTIROIDS_G.BIN Edited December 13, 2019 by JOD-I 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 2 hours ago, JOD-I said: Will it have UFOs as well? Yup. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Wowie! Seems like an awful lot of asteroids floating around there all at once. Thought the TI had trouble with so many objects like that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 8 hours ago, save2600 said: Wowie! Seems like an awful lot of asteroids floating around there all at once. Thought the TI had trouble with so many objects like that? There's a maximum of 32 sprites. With some careful planning, you can avoid more than the "maximum of 4 sprites per horizontal screen line". Sprites will flicker and/or partly disappear if you have more than 4 sprites horizontally. A good example is BurgerTime (after some minutes of play, you should have seen partly disappearing sausages etc.). I haven't played AsTIroids much (a few minutes). At first look it may be, that the programmer has somehow avoided more than 4 sprites horizontally. I may explore this. For my Asteroids, I'm also avoiding more than 4 sprites horizontally. I will implement several "tricks" to make it all happen. When this game becomes first priority, I will open a thread in the Development sub-forum. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 You could also consider doing many of the asteroids using background graphics. I admit would make things a lot more complicated, but quite sure it would work out real nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Here's an interesting version of Asteroids by Peter Hodie written in assembly. XB autoload. (from the tigameshelf.net) Aster.dsk 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 Should maybe some asteroids have the shape of the TI logo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 1 hour ago, ClausB said: Should maybe some asteroids have the shape of the TI logo? in this Asteroid's clone there are some asteroids with 4A text on them, of course not a TI logo but almost close ? http://www.ti99iuc.it/web/index.php?pageid=database_cerca&archivioid=254 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 I tawt i taw a Ti LOGO... ...I did, I did taw a Ti LOGO... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOD-I Posted December 16, 2019 Author Share Posted December 16, 2019 I just bought a finalgrom 99. The AsTIroids rom will not work on it. kinda bummed but at least it works on classic99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 7 hours ago, JOD-I said: I just bought a finalgrom 99. The AsTIroids rom will not work on it. kinda bummed but at least it works on classic99 The "AsTIroids rom" (a GROM moving bytes from GROM to RAM and then executing the program in RAM) requires a 32K Memory Expansion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOD-I Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 I have the 32k expansion but it has something to do with its starting address that prevents it from starting. the classic99 emulator has something built in that allows it to start that a real TI does not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 26 minutes ago, JOD-I said: I have the 32k expansion but it has something to do with its starting address that prevents it from starting. the classic99 emulator has something built in that allows it to start that a real TI does not Not intentionally it doesn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOD-I Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 So is there anything I can do to get it to run on a real TI using finalgrom99? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Remove the first 3 letters of the file name. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOD-I Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 That worked! Thank you! IROIDS_G.BIN 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 On 12/17/2019 at 6:42 AM, HOME AUTOMATION said: Remove the first 3 letters of the file name. Yes bumping a 3 yr old thread to say THANK YOU!!! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 On 12/13/2019 at 12:06 PM, sometimes99er said: I'm more onto my Miniature Golf right now, but I'll definitely do "something" on Asteroids too. Only minor, but important work has been done on "Asteroids" and "Miniature Golf" (both working titles heavily leaning on Atari 2600), but thanks for bringing my attention to both of them.😋 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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