Fort Apocalypse Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 (edited) For now, just the title and theme, but now with Rockford's car (and a Mack truck if you pull down on the joystick). rockford_files_0.4.bas.bin rockford_files_0.4.bas Edited August 22, 2022 by Fort Apocalypse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 16, 2022 Author Share Posted August 16, 2022 Release 0.1 Title and part of theme rockford_files_0.1.bas.bin rockford_files_0.1.bas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevKelley Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 I can’t seem to get an emulator on my new phone but I need to hear this. I love Rockford Files and the theme song is one of my favorites. I almost named my son Rockford too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 17, 2022 Author Share Posted August 17, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, KevKelley said: I can’t seem to get an emulator on my new phone but I need to hear this. I love Rockford Files and the theme song is one of my favorites. I almost named my son Rockford too! Awesome!! The theme will need some fixing up. And, it's just the first part; I'm not sure if I should try to take on the harmonica or the guitar parts, though the harmonica could be done with one of the buzzy sounds, maybe. If you want to take the lead on it or the game dev and/or ideas, that'd be awesome!! I was thinking of trying to whack something together like a car chase and maybe gathering some clues/running into people that he'd talk to (theoretically), but I've not started yet other than this part of the theme, and I'm at a serious loss of what would be a good game plot or good gameplay, so I'd be fine handing it over. If there were a way to work on it together, we could, and we might have to break it into parts, or I could just do more theme music. Whatever you'd like. Edited August 17, 2022 by Fort Apocalypse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevKelley Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 How did you program the audio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 17, 2022 Author Share Posted August 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, KevKelley said: How did you program the audio? By hand in a text-editor, using RT's bB Music and Sound Data Creation Toy as reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevKelley Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Oh. Have you seen the MIDI to TIA program? I think it was called something like MIDItari or something like that. I have it on my laptop but couldn’t quite get it right (but then again I am still learning how to properly use sound). I’ll gmhave to find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 17, 2022 Author Share Posted August 17, 2022 5 hours ago, KevKelley said: Oh. Have you seen the MIDI to TIA program? I think it was called something like MIDItari or something like that. Unfortunately, I have a mac and don't have Windows setup on it. I'll see what I can do, though. For now, I'll do another release with the audio code cleaned-up a bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 17, 2022 Author Share Posted August 17, 2022 Release 0.2 Cleaned up code a bit rockford_files_0.2.bas.bin rockford_files_0.2.bas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Zimmermann Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 wow. 😍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 Release 0.3 Improved bass and melody parts of theme and added "harmonica melody". rockford_files_0.3.bas.bin rockford_files_0.3.bas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Zimmermann Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Start an Atari 2600 Game with your music. Car Racing with Flag Capture and collect people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 Release 0.4 Rockford's car now zooms through the title screen. Pull down on the joystick to see a Mack truck chasing him in the title screen (possibly a temporary hack to see a possibility for future gameplay). Improved tuning of end of theme. Swapped audio channels. rockford_files_0.4.bas rockford_files_0.4.bas.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevKelley Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 I love the song. I can just picture this in some Atari game. The harmonica part plays in between levels. This is dangerous. I am trying to tie up a bunch of loose ends and don’t want to get distracted but now this has got me wondering what a Rockford Files game would be. I picture something more like Ghostbusters or Raiders or E.T or Superman, where maybe you travel an over world map from Rockford’s trailer where you solve a crime. Maybe you have to search for things to find clues and if someone catches you you get beat up because Rockford always got beat up. So much potential. I have been working on an idea for a map system that I want to experiment with. Perhaps this could be it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Apocalypse Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 3 hours ago, KevKelley said: So much potential. I have been working on an idea for a map system that I want to experiment with. Perhaps this could be it. Sounds good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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