Geezer Games Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Hi, I'm considering starting out a new arcade porting project and I'm thinking about tackling Hyper Sports. I normally port games to the Amiga but with this one I'm considering doing both Amiga and ST. My question is, is there an active ST scene still that would appreciate it? Cheers, Graeme / Geezer Games 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Of course there is, and I think most would be delighted with a new game port! If you decided to do it, good luck!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzac Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 If it’s good, we’ll play it make it STe only or enhanced and compatible with MegaSTe/TT/Falcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Yes please!!! ST and/or STe ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keops Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) That would be excellent! Feel free to make a poll here, the group is very active: https://www.facebook.com/groups/133161394213 Would it be a dual boot disk? Edited December 31, 2022 by Keops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Sure, it's all appreciated. Even further, if you would share some of the source of your previous porting efforts, then perhaps someone would be inspired to do ST ports of them as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drfloyd Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 we need this port ! BUT it should be on STF Atari STF is the Real ST, and I think that Hyper Sport can be arcade perfect even on STF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Yes of course! The poor ST doesn't get much love so some new software would be amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezer Games Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 On 12/31/2022 at 8:38 PM, ataricrypt said: Yes please!!! ST and/or STe ??? Yeah it would be to the stock Atari STFM. On 12/31/2022 at 9:39 PM, Keops said: That would be excellent! Feel free to make a poll here, the group is very active: https://www.facebook.com/groups/133161394213 Would it be a dual boot disk? Making it dual boot would depend on whether I can master the disk... not something I've done before, I recall Starglider was ST/Amiga on 1 floppy and some of the magazine cover disks too. 20 hours ago, ggn said: Sure, it's all appreciated. Even further, if you would share some of the source of your previous porting efforts, then perhaps someone would be inspired to do ST ports of them as well! The source code to my games is published on my mcgeezer.itch.io page, Bomb Jack Beer Edition would be an interesting challenge to the ST. Someone would probably have to preshift all of the sprites and masks to get the speed up. 19 hours ago, drfloyd said: we need this port ! BUT it should be on STF Atari STF is the Real ST, and I think that Hyper Sport can be arcade perfect even on STF. I reckon Hyper Sports is totally possible on a standard ST... it's why I'm interested in doing it as a perfect port. I may need to brush up on the Timer B / MFP stuff as I recall it was a bit tricky. I'll start looking into and get the IDE setup. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keops Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Memory might be an issue on a stock ST since the game had a lot of samples, you might need 1MB. I just checked out of curiosity, the sample files for the arcade game seem to take around 680kb for all the words and numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 These days, I can't see a good reason to code for less than 1 meg. There are too many enhanced machines out there and upgrade options to boot... Don't "dumb it down" please... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzac Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 13 hours ago, DarkLord said: These days, I can't see a good reason to code for less than 1 meg. There are too many enhanced machines out there and upgrade options to boot... Don't "dumb it down" please... I agree. and even though i have STs and MegaSTs, i would still appreciate something with more punch. even if i didnt have any STe or higher, anyone can easily emulate one. Regarding RAM, i really think 1MB minimum is fine, use any extra available if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 If I recall, the samples were of pretty low quality in the arcade-- lots of hiss, wouldn't benefit from the STe sound chip unless they were rerecorded. Maybe the blitter would help with sprite animation, but for the most part I think a vanilla ST could handle the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Nowadays many people load software from modern devices that emulate hard disks, like Ultrasatan. An hard disk version would be welcome. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesWD Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 yes please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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