Little Computer People (largely passive/screensaver)

[chewy]

may i request a hack w/ a GE Monitor top refridgerator please.  Seems like it could be possible not to hard....not sure tho....Many thanks.

 

Edited May 15, 2022 by chewy

[rsiddall]

Small update. Fireplace area is now animated as your friend walks over it.

A few graphical changes implemented and some of the colors have moved from white to an "off white" color to help with flicker.

 

I keep forgetting to turn off joystick movement as that's how I'm testing the rooms but it won't be enabled on the screensaver - at least not for movement.

LC_DPC-5.bin

[rsiddall]

22 hours ago, chewy said:

may i request a hack w/ a GE Monitor top refridgerator please.  Seems like it could be possible not to hard....not sure tho....Many thanks.

 

I'll try to get around to your request once I've gotten everything placed. ?

 

[+Gemintronic]

If you wanted to be clever and make things more complicated for yourself..

 

You could set the playfield pixels to black and use the playfield background as a mask.  So, you could do things like make the middle gray and the top red.  Then draw pixels everywhere the bricks and roof are NOT.  It would look like a gray house with a red roof.

[rsiddall]

4 hours ago, Gemintronic said:

If you wanted to be clever and make things more complicated for yourself..

 

You could set the playfield pixels to black and use the playfield background as a mask.  So, you could do things like make the middle gray and the top red.  Then draw pixels everywhere the bricks and roof are NOT.  It would look like a gray house with a red roof.

Can you mock something simple up? I'm following, vaguely...

 

I'm a visual person and sometimes directions are more confusing.

Edited May 16, 2022 by rsiddall

[+Gemintronic]

In this picture the dark blue is actually playfield pixels.  The grass and dirt is actually the playfield background.

 

[rsiddall]

13 minutes ago, Gemintronic said:

In this picture the dark blue is actually playfield pixels.  The grass and dirt is actually the playfield background.

 

Gotcha. I think I did something similar with my lawnmover screen saver...

I might give that a try...thanks for the suggestion!

[rsiddall]

Everything should be working. Not much to add...dog will run to your side, sometimes, if you're on the top floor (he misses you).

 

I'm sure I could continue to tweak, and probably will.

My main goal for jumping to the DPC+ kernel was to have everything onscreen at the same time.

That and the higher resolution that allowed for better looking graphics.

 

I think I've managed to do that for the most part.

If you need further convincing download both version and compare.

 

Happy Friday!

 

LC_DPC.bin

[TrekMD]

This is really cool!  Nicely done!