Orion_ Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 After 3 years of development, Alice Sisters is now available for the Atari Falcon computer ! Enjoy a puzzle platformer with 28 levels in 4 worlds and a 2 players co-op mode ! Buy the game here https://orionsoft.itch.io/alice-sisters Video of the game played on a real Falcon 030: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5GbmLMS3EI This game works on both Atari Falcon 030 and 060, 7 mbytes of RAM is required, 26 mbytes of disk space is required. It works on VGA or TV. An effort was made so that you can install the game using only 4 HD floppy disk despite the final game taking up to 22 mbytes on the harddrive ! The game was originally made for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. This Atari Falcon version is not perfect and has cutdowns due to the obvious hardware limitation of the Atari Falcon compared to the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. This port took me almost 3 years, an insane amount of efforts, about 2000 lines of assembly code only for the graphics rendering part. The game runs at 30fps, I know it's not perfect, there are some little graphic glitches, it could run at 60fps with some DML guru coders technics, but it's the best I can do with my coding skills. Enjoy ! 11 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 I don't have real Falcon hardware, but do you know if this game would run under the hatari emulator Falcon emulation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion_ Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 yes, it was actively developed using hatari for faster testing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlidellMan Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Congratulations on your game's release. By the way, I wonder if you added the option to customize the controls for those who get tired of pushing up on the joystick or keyboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeLate Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 I bought the game yesterday. I've yet to install and try it on my Falcon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZzapPaolo Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 On 2/12/2024 at 11:38 PM, Orion_ said: yes, it was actively developed using hatari for faster testing Great to know. I bought the game, but I am unable to install it. I wish to try it in the Hatari emulator, but I don't know how to decompress SHK files on Windows. I've googled everywhere but it seems a too archaic format for mainstream web searches. Would you please provide a more emulator-friendly version of the Falcon files in a simple ZIP compressed folder? Thank you so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion_ Posted February 17 Author Share Posted February 17 you don't have to decompress anything, just read the readme file. copy all the shk files on your harddrive and start the as_setup.tos install program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZzapPaolo Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 1 hour ago, Orion_ said: you don't have to decompress anything, just read the readme file. copy all the shk files on your harddrive and start the as_setup.tos install program Yep, thank you so much. This game is really amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Thank you porting these games to the Falcon! My dog loved "Alice's Mom's Rescue" on the Jaguar, and she approves of these ports too 😀 One question - is the lack of support for the Jagpad on the Falcon a deliberate design decision? If not, is it hard to add? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion_ Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 I don't have a jagpad anymore so ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masteries Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Congratulations for the porting effort! I will ask about the port needs and cutdowns, its very interesting the posibility to port from Megadrive/Genesis to Falcon, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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