Retrospect Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 GRID-E , GRID-F , GRID-G .... EA5 files GRID-X .... Extended Basic file. Game requires expansion Ram to run and joystick 1. I've officially 'retired' from the scene after a bad burnout .... but I recently decided to try and make a fun little game for myself to play in my spare time, and I've decided to share it here. Grid Wars sees the player protecting a grid in outer space from nasty meanie things that want to over-take it for some unknown reason. The main enemies come down the grid left to right but they react to everything on the screen, and if they hit anything they'll go the opposite way... if you shoot at one of them it'll turn into a Tombstone and they react to that too. You've also got the god-awful XY Zappers again and these are particularly nasty in this game. The one at the side fires a bomb that forms a "pod" that can only be destroyed by the bottom zapper's laser. From that , at the left side of it, forms a downward arrow that heads down the screen. Touching either will kill you. Wave 2 onwards sees a cheeky little chap at the top of the grid, lobbing bombs at the player and running away. he can't be killed either. Hope you have fun with this. 19 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badolepuddytat Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 Loved the old grid runner type games from Mr Minter. Will this run on a finalgrom 99? Congratulations, this looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmheads Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 Awesome!!! Looking forward to giving this a go! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 13 Author Share Posted September 13 1 hour ago, palmheads said: Awesome!!! Looking forward to giving this a go! Cheers , enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 13 Author Share Posted September 13 7 hours ago, badolepuddytat said: Loved the old grid runner type games from Mr Minter. Will this run on a finalgrom 99? Congratulations, this looks great! Not sure as yet but I'll find a way to do that .... I did attempt to use the facility to make a bin but it got an error most likely due to something i've done wrong but i can have another bash at it. And yes , the Yak was my inspiration for this one. I've been enjoying playing his Matrix game on my Vic 20 maxi / C64 maxi computer. It's been compiled from XB using senior falcon's compiler. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 GRIDWAR8.BIN Hope that works for FinalGrom? I've been out of the game too long! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheung Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Sweet. Does this mean you've come out of TI game retirement? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 1 hour ago, Cheung said: Sweet. Does this mean you've come out of TI game retirement? Not as such , no ... but I still do have a little tinker around now and then ... and why not share the end result if it's playable enough. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badolepuddytat Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Confirmed, worked well on the Finalgrom cart. Well done. This is a great game! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 52 minutes ago, badolepuddytat said: Confirmed, worked well on the Finalgrom cart. Well done. This is a great game! Thankyou! Glad you're enjoying it. You know, this is what makes me wanna keep going. The fact that something I cobbled together in my kitchen across a few hour-long sessions ends up being played at someone else's house on a real system, miles away It's brilliant. 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Cart works well with Classic99. Very slick game. 👍 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 14 hours ago, sometimes99er said: Cart works well with Classic99. Very slick game. 👍 thankyou Karsten. 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmheads Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 (edited) Seriously cool version of Matrix/GridRunner 2/AMC (in the USA) Always had an idea of coding this game for the Mini Memory using all of its features (POKEV, PEEKV, Assembly in 4k etc etc). This is compiled XB huh? Its pretty slick! Edited September 15 by palmheads 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernalKeith Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 (edited) Do you have a master list of all your games somewhere, or one particular thread or page where they can all be downloaded from? (EDIT: are all of them besides this one on the Gameshelf?) Edited September 15 by InfernalKeith 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 53 minutes ago, InfernalKeith said: Do you have a master list of all your games somewhere, or one particular thread or page where they can all be downloaded from? (EDIT: are all of them besides this one on the Gameshelf?) there was a list somewhere at some time. I'd have to dig it out but i've done more since that list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 GRIDR28.BIN << Updated the game with faster execution speed, 8 moving monsters instead of 6, updated sounds, nice little intro before each new zone / wave js99er-20240915120609.webm 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Devilish game. Bravo! Outdone yourself, mate! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 3 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said: Devilish game. Bravo! Outdone yourself, mate! Cheers mate . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Ahhhhh, Gridrunner! Nice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 20 hours ago, Retrospect said: Updated the game with faster execution speed, 8 moving monsters instead of 6, updated sounds, nice little intro before each new zone / wave Watch it my friend, before tinkering and straycats get the better of you ! 😑 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serafini Lapo Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 great game! I'm having so much fun👍🏻 congratulations retrospect 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 18 Author Share Posted September 18 On 9/16/2024 at 8:56 AM, sometimes99er said: Watch it my friend, before tinkering and straycats get the better of you ! 😑 tinkering away with and i've come up with a 3rd revision nearly. But always the 1st revision gets all the downloads. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 18 Author Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, Serafini Lapo said: great game! I'm having so much fun👍🏻 congratulations retrospect Excellent, thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 19 Author Share Posted September 19 GRIDR38.BIN < Last revision, I promise! Game is now somewhat closer to Matrix on the Vic - 20 You'll see from the video the changes that I've made. Zone 2 onwards has the "mad bomber" guy running around at the top of the grid as always. Anyone wanting to put this game on their websites for downloads etc, feel free. I consider it freeware so do as you like but the main thing is enjoy it. Also anyone wanting to make a proper port of GridRunner / Matrix for our TI-99, go for it and make it because I can't do pixel-for-pixel ports very well. js99er-20240919151118.webm 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 Very nice!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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