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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 6 Mar 2007
22:03 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | Edit January 27, 2008: Project is grayscale, ASM-based, and delayed for about two months.
If you've ever heard of Pitfall! from the Atari 2600, I'm remaking it in TI-83+ BASIC, played on the homescreen. It would be absurdly slow if it weren't for the fact that hardly any computing is being done during the main loop of the game. Instead, each level is loaded just before by compiling a 16-frame animation (which takes up the whole screen) on the spot. On my 83+, the game's running at around 2.5 frames per second. Since I barely have anything left to add to that loop, I'm kinda happy.
Everything that was in the original (vines, moving quicksand, lakes, rolling barrels, crocodiles, snakes, treasure, holes, ladders, undergroundedness, underground walls, scorpions, 256 levels) should be in my version, excluding the barrels. If I were to include those, level-loading would take an impractically long amount of time. I might make a barrel version for those who would really want it, but the rest of the game comes first :D).
I'll put up screenshots as soon as I can borrow a link cable. Right now, I'd call this project around 70% done (I have yet to type in all those levels from the original). How does it sound?
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 11 Mar 2007
17:29 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Sounds good.
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banjo2E
Wraith
Posted: 12 Mar 2007
12:59 GMT
Total Posts: 689 | w00t! Pitfall! ^_^
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 23 Mar 2007
08:42 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | 
I'm almost done with the splash screen (a b&w version of that thing). Since the original image looks terrible when black-and-whiteness is bestowed upon it, I'm redrawing it myself.
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 16 Apr 2007
21:51 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | If anyone's wondering why I haven't done anything more with Pitfall!, I was disrupted by my sudden comprehension of ASMy things. I'll probably remake as my first real Assembly project, which means that it'll have everything the original did, only shoved into a 96x64-pixel space.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 16 Apr 2007
22:25 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Good.
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 4 May 2007
16:32 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | Does anyone feel like making sprites for this? Just in case there's a taker, here's what's needed:
8x16:
Harry running, 5-sprites long
standing
climbing, 2 sprites
swinging
midair (jumping)
8x8:
gold bar, 2 sprites
silver bar, 2
barrel, 2
snake, 2
scorpion, 2
brick wall
diamond ring
moneybag
croc head shut
croc head open
If you don't know what the sprites are supposed to look like, there's info all over the place (Wikipedia, AtariAge, ect.).
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 4 May 2007
20:16 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | I would if I could draw stuff.
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 5 May 2007
00:20 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | Oh, I can't afford to picky about them anyway. Since I have no link cable, I'll end up converting the sprites by hand, which means I'd probably end up modifying the ones that need to be modified.
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 10 May 2007
21:41 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | Well, sweet! I've just finished memorizing all the opcodes for the Z80, which means that I can start really working on this. Sprites first...
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 16 May 2007
21:36 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | I've just finished making the 3-level grayscale 8x8 sprite editor (approximately 220 lines of code), which has GetCSC as the only ROM call used. I won't submit it unless I'm given more of a reason to, since it's crudely done and only uses the top left part of the screen. But, since the sprite editor's here, the spritemaking can begin. Again, if anyone wants to be included, this game can be made faster with some sprite help...
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 16 May 2007
22:47 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | This is madness.
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banjo2E
Wraith
Posted: 17 May 2007
05:49 GMT
Total Posts: 689 | Yeah, well, it'll be worse in the WAR thread if nobody posts for another month. I've already double posted at least twice trying to save that topic.
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TheStorm
Marine
Posted: 3 Nov 2007
20:17 GMT
Total Posts: 15 | I would suggest writing you own Getcsc call because TI's has extra stuff that you don't need. Or you could use direct Key press detection which i think would be better for this project.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 12 Nov 2007
08:57 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | I'll post here too, I wish to have this game!
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 12 Nov 2007
19:20 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | ... please 1337 no more bumping. i dont want the admins on your case.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 12 Nov 2007
20:29 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | It was only 8 days, though so ha! Thestorm bumped and thus it was reopened. So I didn't bump he did
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 13 Nov 2007
07:39 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | watever.
just please. XD
you know the rules.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 13 Nov 2007
19:02 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | I know but I just posted postbump.
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 13 Nov 2007
19:17 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | i know, but be nice.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 13 Nov 2007
19:36 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | I am being nice. Wat r u talkin about?
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 13 Nov 2007
19:49 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | you yelling at the guy.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 13 Nov 2007
19:57 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | what guy? not here I wasn't.
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 14 Nov 2007
17:05 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | no it was on your pokemon red beta topic
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 14 Nov 2007
21:41 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | well I knew about that. I go insane. I need a flame board on this site. So that I can just rant and go on tangents at least 2 times a month. If the admins would add that sort of board *ahem* then I would have no need to flame. They could call it. 1337h4kor's flaming show and anyone who wishes to flame also.
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 15 Nov 2007
17:28 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | that will never happen. even if you got your own forum.
flamings not allowed anywhere.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 15 Nov 2007
19:03 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | Oh really, On the microsoft zune unoficial site, Zuneboards, they have an entire board dedicated to just flaming. (btw it's owned and controlled by microsoft)
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 16 Nov 2007
07:44 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | kinda figured.
and who cares what they do?
everyone here hates zunes anyway
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 16 Nov 2007
20:46 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | What did u just say?!?
Zunes are for manly men of manness. Just look at how big it is. It can be dropped from 10 feet and not break. Can the iPood do that? Really can it?
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 17 Nov 2007
07:51 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | ive done that to even the more fragile ipods, the thin videos that came out forever ago, dropped that hard, perfectly fine.
besides everyone here hates ipods too
except if they have ipod linux
doom and gameboy games for music.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 17 Nov 2007
14:07 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | but with the zune you can easily make it a small portable hardrive. Wait I just remember that. Thankyou for making me think of that. My zune has a 30 gig hard drive and thus I can save my computer. Thanks a lot Hydra for that.
P.S.
The zune has more hacks and mods.
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 17 Nov 2007
18:04 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | i dont care about zunes! when you realize that?
anyways yeah, np. i wish i thought of it myself.
when my comp will need to trasnfer, i will have an 80 gig ipod to use for the transfer. bwahahah.
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 18 Nov 2007
20:29 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | I have an old generation 1 Zune. I realized as I was typing. I forgot about the explorer regs I added. Well my comp is going on 4 years old. Plus it's a laptop and thus the HDD is only 37.5 gig, also I've never used more than 20 gig in my life. So ya, it'll work for now. I love hacking microsoft products and writing new reg files.
:-)
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 19 Nov 2007
08:07 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | cool
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1337h4kor
Wraith
Posted: 19 Nov 2007
11:53 GMT
Total Posts: 612 | what's cool?
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TheStorm
Marine
Posted: 22 Nov 2007
19:30 GMT
Total Posts: 15 | BTW has any progress been made on this or did I bump a dead Project because it looked cool?
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Hydraliskisback
Wraith
Posted: 23 Nov 2007
11:21 GMT
Total Posts: 583 | the second one. sorry.
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 28 Jan 2008
18:07 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | I've been tied up with college audition preparation since the beginning of the schoolyear. Once they're over, I'll probably continue with Pitfall! and AGZAC. I'm currently way too busy to worry about either, though.
Grr, Hydralisk, you're shooing away my enthusiasts! :)
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