I made a prettier Gopher

[glurk]

Because I was bored, I took the US Games "Gopher" disassembly by @DEBRO and modified it to use the "early HMOVE" technique to get rid of that unsightly black gap.  But using early HMOVE throws off everything below it by 8 pixels, so I had to correct all of that.  I think I did it all correctly.

 

Anyway, I think it looks better now.

Gopher.bin

Edited March 27, 2023 by glurk

[glurk]

Still noodling with this, tried to change the colors to more "Activision-like" style.  Is it better?  Comments??

 

 

[Atarian7]

I'm not really familiar with Gopher, but that screen shot looks good.

 

[+cvga]

I bought this game for $5 at the grocery store when I was a kid. It's a simple game but it's pretty fun. It's also a little therapeutic hitting the gopher in the head. 

 

Your revised screen looks really good. Could you put the original screen up beside it?

[+SpiceWare]

Looks great!  

 

 

Should probably be posting this in the Atari 2600 Hacks subform.

[glurk]

7 hours ago, SpiceWare said:

Should probably be posting this in the Atari 2600 Hacks subforum.

I should have, but I actually didn't intend to do a "Gopher" hack.  It started out as a programming challenge just to eliminate the HMOVE bar, and turned into an update / hack version.  But (IMO) the new color scheme makes it look almost like a new game, and I'm rather happy with it.  So, updated color version:

 

 

Gopher.bin

[tomservo]

I love topics like this.  I have not heard of this game, but I'll give it a try now.  Thank you!!

 

[glurk]

One last version now...  I added a modest "TitleScreen" at the start, and fixed a small positioning bug.  This one should be "perfect" I hope:

 

 

Gopher.bin

[+Yurkie]

with great fan art label, story about protecting carrots for the Easter Bunny we could get some carts made.

[glurk]

I was just digging around on old PC, came across the source code to this, so I'll add it.  I have no memory of what I did here, LOL....  But this source does assemble to the working color-enhanced title-screen hack version.  The source hacking is mostly an uncommented mess of the original nice disassembly.

 

gopher.zip

[Bomberman94]

13 hours ago, glurk said:

I was just digging around on old PC, came across the source code to this, so I'll add it.  I have no memory of what I did here, LOL....  But this source does assemble to the working color-enhanced title-screen hack version.  The source hacking is mostly an uncommented mess of the original nice disassembly.

 

gopher.zip 20.86 kB · 5 downloads

Maybe you‘re interested in a little additional challenge: do a PAL version of your great work!? ☺️

[glurk]

14 hours ago, Bomberman94 said:

Maybe you‘re interested in a little additional challenge: do a PAL version of your great work!? ☺️

Here's the thing.  I've made the source code available.  Changing all of those color values and re-assembling the game is TRIVIAL.  Absolutely anyone can do it, it doesn't even require being a programmer...

 

However, it's a bit of work and effort, and I don't even HAVE a PAL system, I am in NTSC land.  So, maybe it would be better as a project for someone that has a PAL system, and thus has the motivation to spend the time on it....