Tempest is possible

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CunningFellow
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Re: Tempest is possible

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OK - I have worked out the funny HEX file stuff. Did some reading on AVRFreaks and found what I needed.

I add the bits here to the makefile

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HEX_FLASH_FLAGS += -R .ramtiles
HEX_FLASH_FLAGS += -R .vram
All you people that are good with C/GCC can laugh at me now.
CunningFellow
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Re: Tempest is possible

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OK.

Here is a file that should have a HEX without garbage.

Drop both these into a directory with less than 16 files and give it a go with Uzem.

Or if you put it on real hardware then make sure the LVL file is the first thing put on a blank card.

This is still not anything playable, but it shows things moving on the screen at the limit of running out of RAM.

So - it's sad that I won't be able to do a full a game as I had hoped, I still will be able to do something fun and playable. I think if I make the webs a bit smaller rather than the pan/scan I had envisioned - then I should be able to fit 16 aliens on screen at once.
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OK - still not a playable demo sorry. Not been well enough to work on it much.

However I have spent some time trying to make the aliens/objects look pretty with the least resources used.

Here is a youtube video of it on my LCD monitor through a TV converter box

http://youtu.be/TzRvI4Qv1zQ

Here is a HEX that just shows the objects

A Power-Up
The Claw

Then 3 scaled/sized objects of each

flipper
enemy bullet
player bullet
particle laser (note it has flashy red/yellow colours)
tanker
spiker
fuseball
pulsar (one frame of animation)
mirror

Don't think I will do a demon head or UFO yet. Will see how I go. They will have to be very simple/stylized.

I'm still quite concerned about lack of RAMTiles. Everything may have to shrink a fair bit.
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Screenshots are always nice for people that check the forums on their phone then have to wait to get home to see what you are talking about ;)
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Sorry. Heres a screen shot. Not as cool as the youtube video above though cause it doesn't move :)
Sceenshot of the last one
Sceenshot of the last one
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The objects in Tempest are actually code based using function pointers. This makes it less general purpose than the asteroid code, but it makes things faster. (LDI vs LPM)
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Looks Amazing!
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Cool!
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CunningFellow wrote:Not as cool as the youtube video above though cause it doesn't move
:lol: It has been a rough couple days and my cloudy mind forgot to check that when I scanned through the first time.

Cunning this looks great, there is a lot of possibility for action going on there as demonstrated and honestly if you had to resort to a bit of flicker I don't think it would matter. Very impressed as usual with the progress.
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Wow thats great..thats so cool .:) keep up the great work bro cant wait for the finished game to be made to play n injoy it
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Thanks for the encouragement guys. Given me a bit of a boost to try sort out the mechanics of tracking the webs.

D3athadd3r, That last screen showing the variety of enemies spinning around used about 80% of the CPU resources and all but 7 RAMtiles.

Spikes kill the RAMTile usage.

I've had a thought there though. I am going to break with tradition and make the spikes not draw ALL the way from the bottom, but just the highest 16 Z points. When you shoot the spikes it pushes them back down the lane.
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