darwinmac Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 13 hours ago, shanti77 said: The 128K version, running on PAL and NTSC systems, adjusts the music, colors and speed of the game by itself. gacek128multi.xex 49.9 kB · 27 downloads Thanks for producing a truly NTSC-compatible version of your game. I needed to run it on the A800 core on my MiST because my XEGS only has 64k. I think the timing on real NTSC hardware will be better. I still die after a few levels, but the difficulty at the beginning makes more sense as opposed to playing the 64k PAL version on the XEGS. Bob C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 (edited) @Aking You need a good joystick / gamepad, I use a dualshock from PS4. Can you upload a photo? I'd like to see what it looks like. @patjomkiCurrently, I have started a new project, but probably when I find some free time, I will come back to Gacek and I will probably correct / add something. Edited November 21, 2021 by shanti77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patjomki Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Well, apart from the background of the lower bombs and different songs in the levels for me gacek is complete. Really looking forward to an enhanced version even if it takes some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 On 11/21/2021 at 8:38 AM, shanti77 said: Currently, I have started a new project... What's the project? (if you don't mind saying) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 I also improved the bottom panel in NTSC. Gacek_multi_panelfix.xex 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Gacek (PAL&NTSC) is another candidate that I would like to see on a @Sikor cart... ... and that SSCX01 cart. that has not been published yet. XMAS is coming, so it's time to make a wishlist. I also would not mind a PAL&NTSC version of Bosconian on a @Sikor cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwinmac Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 As someone who has not played Bomb Jack before, are there instructions for Gacek? I learned that I needed to hold down the joystick button so the character would fly for a period of time. I also know that if I pick up the bomb when it is flashing, I get more points. However, I saw I can pick up the letters which probably increases my score. However, I do not know if it gives me any extra abilities or hinders me in any way. If everything matches Bomb Jack, I can find a manual online to answer my questions. Bob C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 1 hour ago, darwinmac said: As someone who has not played Bomb Jack before, are there instructions for Gacek? I learned that I needed to hold down the joystick button so the character would fly for a period of time. I also know that if I pick up the bomb when it is flashing, I get more points. However, I saw I can pick up the letters which probably increases my score. However, I do not know if it gives me any extra abilities or hinders me in any way. If everything matches Bomb Jack, I can find a manual online to answer my questions. Bob C Here are the instructions from the author... GACEK.TXT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwinmac Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 (edited) Thank you. I must have missed this on the ABBUC disk. Bob C Edited November 29, 2021 by darwinmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 I myself would like to see some 5200 versions of the winners from the "Class of 2021" from this year's ABBUC Software Contest, especially Gacek, and Blokz, I wonder how much meat would have to be trimmed off of the bone to use this year's entrants with the only 16K of RAM we Big Sexy owners have to put up with. Perhaps, maybe in the short future, ABBUC could introduce similar 2600, 5200, and 7800 divisions of their annual SWC, imagine what new classics could come out of Europe for all of us who own Atari's other great systems, I'm not saying I don't enjoy them on my XEGS, believe me I DO enjoy them, I can't get enough of @shanti77's Gacek, I can't wait to order another HD Capture Pro recorder this weekend (to replace the old one in which burned out) so I can get back to doing The Atari Report so I can review this award-winning port, as well as @popmilo's Blokz, @glurk's Barnstorming, and many others, for all 4 of my systems!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 I have a wicked idea for a game. It can even support FujiNet high score system (sadly this excludes 5200 players). Think the good ol' days of "Soooooooup's Ooooooooooooooooon - 8 track commercials for the ad style I am picturing" Unsolicited Game Idea (for my 8-bit and maybe later an unsolicited 5200 port, made 45 minutes to 3 days after the initial announcement): So here me out. It's a take on the good ol' "Whack-a-mole" game. Half of the moles are announcing new 8-bit games. The other half are "someone" asking for a 5200 port of a newly announced game. Which side will fill up first? Which side will feel the sting of former C-list Hollywood Actresses now taking the piss for $200 a pop-autographs not answering the cry of "How the hell am I not the next Brad Pitt / Eminem love child?" Smash away PLEASE! The bonus scoring scheme works as follows: If you can knock down all the "5200 port beggers" and keep them down for 1 turns before a new game announcement shows up - you score $500 points If you can knock down all the "5200 port beggers" and keep them down for 3 turns before a new game announcement shows up - you score $750 points If you can knock down all the "5200 port beggers" and keep them down for 5 turns before a new game announcement shows up - you score $1000 points. You also get an 8-bit exclusive blockchain, and some 2600 NFT fairy dust. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 On 11/30/2021 at 9:13 PM, Stephen said: If you can knock down all the "5200 port beggers" and keep them down for 5 turns before a new game announcement shows up - you score $1000 points. You also get an 8-bit exclusive blockchain, and some 2600 NFT fairy dust. Speaking of NFTs... I think these CryptoPunk NFTs would be a pretty cool replacement for the moles. Then you could have them popping up through holes in a FujiNet pcb or something. Either that, or you could be Father Guido Sarducci, and whack popes popping up on a pepperoni pizza. Find the Popes in the Pizza Contest 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 ZeroPage Homebrew is playing Gacek on tomorrow's stream LIVE on Twitch, hope you can join us! Tue Dec 7 @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT+2Day WATCH: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Gacek (2021 | A8) by Janusz Chabowski @shanti77 Castle Defender (2021 | A8) by Martin Simeček @matosimi (Code & Design), Piotr Radecki (Title Screen), Michal Radecki (Music) Barnstorming (2021 | A8) by glurk @glurk Pang (2016 | A8) by Tomasz Biela @tebe /Madteam, Kamil Walaszek (Vidol) & Adam Pwroznik (Ooz / Agenda) & Maciej Hauke (Rocky / Madteam) (Graphics), Michal Radecki (String / Agenda) (Music) (WATCH AT 1080P60 FOR BEST QUALITY) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 ....and on the heels of that last post I will be filming the videos for this set of episodes of The Atari Report, as I found out this past weekend that it WAS NOT a faulty HD CapturePro recorder but rather that it was merely an issue with the power adapter so I used the one that came with it and it worked fine, as a matter of fact I bought a second unit to replace it before I tried the old one out and that is how I found out that one works so now I have TWO fully-working HD CapturePro units so the episodes will definitely be up this weekend. The episodes will cover as follows (S02 E04) 2600 Edition - Pac-Man Arcade from @DINTAR816 - final version 5200 Edition - Barnstorming from @glurk 7800 Edition - Penta from @darryl1970 (Darryl Guenther) 8-Bit Edition - Gacek from @shanti77 - 2021 ABBUC Software Contest Winner See you on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgW22q4hD1AhsdRkno-SLFw I hope you will subscribe to it and my other 2 channels (more content of all 3 channels this weekend as well). We hope you'll tune in this weekend. The videos will also be embedded along with all of the download links on each of their respective forums as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 4 hours ago, BIGHMW said: ....and on the heels of that last post I will be filming the videos for this set of episodes of The Atari Report, as I found out this past weekend that it WAS NOT a faulty HD CapturePro recorder but rather that it was merely an issue with the power adapter so I used the one that came with it and it worked fine, as a matter of fact I bought a second unit to replace it before I tried the old one out and that is how I found out that one works so now I have TWO fully-working HD CapturePro units so the episodes will definitely be up this weekend. The episodes will cover as follows (S02 E04) 2600 Edition - Pac-Man Arcade from @DINTAR816 - final version 5200 Edition - Barnstorming from @glurk 7800 Edition - Penta from @darryl1970 (Darryl Guenther) 8-Bit Edition - Gacek from @shanti77 - 2021 ABBUC Software Contest Winner See you on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgW22q4hD1AhsdRkno-SLFw I hope you will subscribe to it and my other 2 channels (more content of all 3 channels this weekend as well). We hope you'll tune in this weekend. The videos will also be embedded along with all of the download links on each of their respective forums as well. spam... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted February 18, 2022 Author Share Posted February 18, 2022 Today I checked TEBE's sample code for VBXE and modified Gack a bit based on it. Currently, the main character looks like his prototype from ARCADE, but probably also his opponents and backgrounds;) (the game requires 128KB RAM) b.xex 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 New version, all sprites are changed, still need some minor corrections. b.xex 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Ask someone to do the music.... The game is great but the music takes away my will to live. You have a great workshop, with such an engine I hope for more arcade hits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIX Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 19 hours ago, shanti77 said: New version, all sprites are changed, still need some minor corrections. I couldn't start the game in altirra.. it goes straight to self test screen ? Help please ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascrnet Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 1 hour ago, TIX said: I couldn't start the game in altirra.. it goes straight to self test screen ? Help please ! you must add VBXE support ? 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 I added Miker's music from Bomb Jake + some fixes. b.xex 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxl Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) Maybe you can make the effect of transition between the boards - just an animation of Jack before you change the board and it will be great --- tylko tych dwóch elementów zabrakło grze, a wyszła naprawdę genialnie. --- What? No support for HSC? Nightmare, how to play here? Edited February 20, 2022 by xxl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 In the previous version, a second bird was lost. b.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinadan67 Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 I tried this on my VBXE equipped XE Game System. Very nice, the sprites look just like in the arcade version! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanti77 Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 My gameplay 60fps 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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