Pac-Man - Hi-Res Graphics

[+MrFish]

3 hours ago, Stephen said:

Best writeup I've ever seen done was the Pac Man Dossier.  Pretty sure it's offline now, but I saved it.

PacMan Dossier.zip 940.12 kB · 8 downloads

Thanks. I think I'd been to that page and perused before.

 

Too bad some of the links in the "References and Further Reading" section are dead now.

 

[+MrFish]

On 9/14/2023 at 11:17 AM, Stephen said:

Best writeup I've ever seen done was the Pac Man Dossier.  Pretty sure it's offline now, but I saved it.

 

Here's a living site that has a more-recent (updated) version of it: Pac-Man Dossier

 

It's from 2015; the one you have saved is from 2008.

 

[Mark loves Stella]

I just thought to mention that the ZX Spectrum has a Pac Man arcade that uses the original Pac Man roms and runs on a 128k Speccy. https://simonowen.com/spectrum/pacemuzx/ 

Edited September 15, 2023 by Mark loves Stella

[+MrFish]

5 hours ago, Mark loves Stella said:

I just thought to mention that the ZX Spectrum has a Pac Man arcade that uses the original Pac Man roms and runs on a 128k Speccy. https://simonowen.com/spectrum/pacemuzx/ 

Nice!

 

Makes sense for the Spectrum, with it's Z80.

 

The color version looks a bit, rough, as expected. Black & white is good.

 

[+darryl1970]

10 hours ago, MrFish said:

Nice!

 

Makes sense for the Spectrum, with it's Z80.

 

The color version looks a bit, rough, as expected. Black & white is good.

 

My mind would have been blown back in the day.

[+MrFish]

14 hours ago, Mark loves Stella said:

It's using a 6/8 (3/4) scale maze. The maze is 186 pixels high. They scaled it vertically and horizontally.

 

[Geister]

I vote for the Neon ghosts.  That looks amazing.

[+MrFish]

17 hours ago, Mark loves Stella said:

I just thought to mention that the ZX Spectrum has a Pac Man arcade that uses the original Pac Man roms and runs on a 128k Speccy.

16 hours ago, MrFish said:

Makes sense for the Spectrum, with it's Z80.

The Colecovision uses a Z80 too. I don't think the Pac-Man Collection for it is an emulator, but I know the source code (Pac-Man & Ms. Pac-Man) was used for making it. So, it's a very accurate version. It uses the same scaling as the ZX version -- (6/8 - 3/4) 186 pixel high maze.

 

 

You can play it here:

https://archive.org/details/pacman_coleco

 

 

 

[j1mp4ck]

On 9/13/2023 at 3:25 PM, MrFish said:

 

So, yeah, this would be the way to go for ghost points. The 2 PMG's are only needed for 1600 points.

 

 

I always dreamed of that! congratulations for the great initiative! Just out of curiosity, what would it look like in a white background and black pixels format?

 

[+MrFish]

1 hour ago, j1mp4ck said:

I always dreamed of that! congratulations for the great initiative!

Yeah, I think most people have always wanted a better Pac-Man. Although, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I think the Super Pac-Man engine for the Atari 8-bits has the potential for producing a very good Pac-Man too. I'll probably work on some compatible graphics for that sometime too (in fact, I've already started some with it).

 

1 hour ago, j1mp4ck said:

Just out of curiosity, what would it look like in a white background and black pixels format?

I already demonstrated the idea in this post: Dark on light.

 

[Overange]

On 9/15/2023 at 3:09 AM, Mark loves Stella said:

I just thought to mention that the ZX Spectrum has a Pac Man arcade that uses the original Pac Man roms and runs on a 128k Speccy. https://simonowen.com/spectrum/pacemuzx/ 

Ooohh just look at that near perfect colour clash perfection of the ZX spectrum, nothing else compares.  

 

That being said, in later days it paved the way for some really clever programming to really make use of the 2 colours per 8x8 tile and produce some beautiful looking games.

 

Anyways, as you were, this is a Atari Chat Room