drunkeneye Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 After several hours, I present you the first beta of MAFIA for Atari 8-bit. This game is more or less a classic on the C64, and i tried to port it to A8. Clearly, as an A8 beginner, I had some problems creating a 1:1 port, thus, the map looks quite different. However, the rest should be rather close to the original (given that I had the BASIC sources available). There will be still (severe) bugs. Not even sure if loading/saving will work as expected, and since I did not play it through, I even do not know if one can 'win' this game right now. However, I am grateful for any bugs reports (here or on github). The graphics are more or less a mess. Sound is even not existing. Not sure how much I will try to polish them, help is welcome. The game is localised in german and english, however, the english part was translated quickly by ChatGPT, so it might be off here and there. Also, the text is partly not very aligned (centered or otherwise). I have no idea if this thing will run on real hardware. I was able to run it in my emulator. Hope to test it soon on an A8. Full sources and ATR image can be found here: https://github.com/drunkeneye/MAFIA.A8 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdefabri Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Awesome! Thanks for doing this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsupilami Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Very cool thanks 😎 For me, the game loops on this screen : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 9 minutes ago, Marsupilami said: Very cool thanks 😎 For me, the game loops on this screen : aww, thanks for the bug, will try to find where the overflow happens, hopefully this evening. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Eventually I managed to exit the endless loop and get this. Which emulator did you use? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsupilami Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 1 hour ago, Philsan said: Which emulator did you use? Altirra 4.0 / XL PAL / 320K Rambo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 1 hour ago, Philsan said: Eventually I managed to exit the endless loop and get this. Which emulator did you use? omg, that looks like i overwrite accidently some memory. that would also explain the endless loop. not sure how to debug this. i had this error before, but eventually after debugging it did not appear anymore, so i thought it is fixed. i use Atari800MacX with stock 64kb. will try 320K Rambo to see if that has an effect. sorry guys for the bugs 😕 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 ok, something is broken 😕 it already starts with the wanted poster, and higher rank, something gets overwritten. it could be the ATR. i recompiled and now it looks better. i will test a few minutes then upload a new ATR. at times i had too much code, and since variables start at $BE80, changing the variables would occasionally change data/code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsupilami Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 12 minutes ago, drunkeneye said: sorry guys for the bugs 😕 Don't worry, it's a beta release B.T.W. i had the same problem on a stock 800xl PAL (+fujinet) with tfhh 512K memory expansion (it acts like a Rambo). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 16 minutes ago, Marsupilami said: Don't worry, it's a beta release B.T.W. i had the same problem on a stock 800xl PAL (+fujinet) with tfhh 512K memory expansion (it acts like a Rambo). yeah, but i really really waited until it was feature complete and looked like playable, so until its really beta and not just alpha guess, i screwed it. i have now uploaded a new ATR to github, it might be that i assume that all memory is zero when starting. now i explicitly initialize the memory. no idea if this helps, but i do not see any apparent error, and i still find this very hard to debug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsupilami Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 12 minutes ago, drunkeneye said: i have now uploaded a new ATR to github, it might be that i assume that all memory is zero when starting. now i explicitly initialize the memory. no idea if this helps, but i do not see any apparent error, and i still find this very hard to debug. The new ATR is better. But there's a problem with left/right movement. I can only move up and down. (both stock 800xl and Altirra) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 Just now, Marsupilami said: The new ATR is better. But there's a problem with left/right movement. I can only move up and down. (both stock 800xl and Altirra) sorry, it is probably the key mapping. i mapped it to an american keyboard, using [ / ; ' keys. thats the keys the c64 original used. i tried to add joystick support, but i couldnt really test joystick on the emulator so not sure if that works. any idea on what keys i should map to? usual WASD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 so the code is here #$02: dir_x := -1; #$73: dir_x := +1; #$60: dir_y := -1; #$26: dir_y := +1; and $02 = ; and $73 = " following the keycodes in blibs.pas might be very strange on a real atari, but it doesnt run there to check 😕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsupilami Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 I tried with the joystick only, and up/down are working. To test within your emulator, there is a basic program here : https://www.atariarchives.org/c2ba/page002.php Another way of testing would be to install a VM with a windows and install Altirra. In Altirra the joytick is simulated with the keyboard arrows but you can define you own. The real 800xl has some arrows on the keyboard. However i never used the arrows in games, only the joystick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 12 hours ago, Marsupilami said: I tried with the joystick only, and up/down are working. To test within your emulator, there is a basic program here : https://www.atariarchives.org/c2ba/page002.php Another way of testing would be to install a VM with a windows and install Altirra. In Altirra the joytick is simulated with the keyboard arrows but you can define you own. The real 800xl has some arrows on the keyboard. However i never used the arrows in games, only the joystick. yes, i am using Atari800MacOSX, should be comparable to Altirra. i had a bug in the joystick code (and tested it wrong), joystick should work now (at least on the map). thanks again for testing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Also added now very rough polish translations using chatgpt. Hope it runs properly. Every new compile is like a big 'surprise, surprise, if it will run or not'. 😕 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 cross check translations with deepl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 1 hour ago, _The Doctor__ said: cross check translations with deepl thanks, i tried that, but felt that it did not really help, for example, in german its all "You"=2nd person, i think in polish there is the same thing, but chatgpt seemed to have translate it to "you"=formal 2nd person and deepl (when translating forth and back) did somehow the same thing. will fix that later, could ask a friend to do that, right now priority for me is to get it running on a real atari to see how that feels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saberman Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 It promises to be a great game. Here a short gameplay: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 43 minutes ago, Saberman said: It promises to be a great game. Here a short gameplay: thanks! your video makes it look so much near-release, though it is so much beta right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Hello drunkeneye Polish? Hmm. We may have some Polish people in the Atari 8 bit scene, but I'm not sure. 😃🫠😇😂🤪 Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
351cougar Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 the more people comment on translations the better. there are plenty of machine translations ive seen that just don't sound right. of course there is us uk canada austrailian English. It probably wont come out perfect for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 On 3/6/2024 at 1:22 AM, Mathy said: Hello drunkeneye Polish? Hmm. We may have some Polish people in the Atari 8 bit scene, but I'm not sure. 😃🫠😇😂🤪 Sincerely Mathy yes, that localization is supposed to be a tribute to one of the strongest atari scenes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkeneye Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 On 3/6/2024 at 3:16 AM, 351cougar said: the more people comment on translations the better. there are plenty of machine translations ive seen that just don't sound right. of course there is us uk canada austrailian English. It probably wont come out perfect for everyone. yes, and the current english translation is not perfect either, i hope that after fixing bugs someone here can help me fix it. and also the graphics. and also the music and the code needs some polish too. actually the only thing i am certain of is the german translation 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 On 3/6/2024 at 3:16 AM, 351cougar said: the more people comment on translations the better. there are plenty of machine translations ive seen that just don't sound right. of course there is us uk canada austrailian English. It probably wont come out perfect for everyone. Just go with the most spoken language in the world. And that´s not English, Chinese, Arab or anything. It actually is BAD english. 😆 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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