Robert M Posted May 7, 2004 Share Posted May 7, 2004 What do you think? It might be doable with my idea for including FIFO RAMs in the cartridge. Imagine the blue and green lines are made with playfield graphics. The player is the ball repeated skewed over several lines. there are 4 columns of enemies active at the same time on the grid flickering at 30 Hz. Shots are not shown, expect they would be flickering heavily, but flicker on shots is not as noticeable IMO. Yes I know the lines don't match playfield pixels. I stretched the original drawing to more closely resemble a TV screen in proportions. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 That is a very nice looking Tempest screen, are you thinking of making it into a cartridge ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Posted May 8, 2004 Author Share Posted May 8, 2004 That is a very nice looking Tempest screen, are you thinking of making it into a cartridge ? Maybe... Its really just an idea. I need to do a bunch of timing analysis to see if its possible. Strangely enough, the enemies are not nearly as tough to draw on a real VCS as the grid would be. Those damn spikes being a differenent color makes drawing such a construct very hard on a VCS. I am convinced extra RAM would be needed in the cart. Would it be enough? That remains to be seen. I have attached a more pixel perfect mockup. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 You'd definitely need more RAM to get higher resolution. The 2600 proto of Tempest surfaced about 3 years ago, and it was pretty crap. (Or as Jeff Minter said, "Tempest is pants!" -- referring to the fact that the initial web looked like a pair of undies) It's easy to see why it was never released. It'd be interesting to see how doable a slightly more faithful rendition of Tempest would be in the right hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Posted May 8, 2004 Author Share Posted May 8, 2004 Here's one more mockup with a "V" shaped web. All the webs are based off the same set of horizontal lines made from playfield graphics. The second attached image shows the base web from which all playable webs are derived by subtraction. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 Those mockups look cool. Maybe even doable! BTW: This thread should be moved to the homebrew forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 I would love to see Tempest successfully ported to the 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari_wizard Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 not bad. keep it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 You could probably use missiles to draw the green spikes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Posted May 11, 2004 Author Share Posted May 11, 2004 You could probably use missiles to draw the green spikes.... True, but I really need them to draw the player and enemy shots which my mockups do not show. I also would be using 1 of the missles draw the far right vertical line of the web. So that leaves a single missle to draw all of the active shots in the game. a.k.a. flicker-city. I would probably face lawsuits for causing seizures if the spikes flickered that much. Thanks for the feedback all. I am leaning toward this as my next big project. Cheers! Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted May 11, 2004 Share Posted May 11, 2004 it looks good,but would be possible to do that on a 2600? the multi color might be doable come to think of it if you do the chrono-color effects that andrew did for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted May 12, 2004 Share Posted May 12, 2004 I would love that if it can be done. I'll defiantly buy a cart when it comes to light Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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