Tornado 2000

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VectorGame
Tornado2000.gif
GenreShooter
DeveloperCunningFellow
Code licenseGNU General Public License version 3
or (at your option) any later version.
Media licenseCreative Commons Attribution Share-Alike version 3.0
EngineKernel 3.3
Video ModeCustom
Release date2014-11-02
LanguageEnglish


Tornado 2000 is an 8bit de-make of Tempest 2000 for the 64 bit Atari Jaguar. The games uses a custom two bit per pixel ramTile based video mode enhanced with SD card streaming. The mode was developed specifically for this game.

Features of the video mode that enable the fast paced action are

- 256 pixels (and 32 tiles wide) to speed up maths

- Fixed RAM locations (on boundaries) for VRAM and tileRAM

- Interrupt ended pixel output routines

- Pixel output colour decisions made in a giant ASM "Case" statement

- Simplified mathematical approximations for jump vectors in the above "Case" statement

- Extended front and back porch that gives time for the CPU to clear the screen during video render

- Background "web" streamed from SD card behind the foreground colours

- Hand crafted ASM code for Bresenham line draw code

- Mild amount of insanity on the part of the coder :)


The game was presented as an advanced demo and ranked 4th at UCC2014.

The final version of the game was released June 2015

ROM

(old) HEX file

UZE file and game data file (required on the SD card with the UZE file)

Source

Source files


Controls

During Title/Credits/Attract mode

Start = Start game

During the game

Left = Rotate claw clockwise

Right = Rotate claw anticlockwise

Down = Jump (after collecting power-up)

A = Fire

B = Fire SuperZapper (smart bomb)

Start = Pause Game

Gameplay

Power ups are the green spinny things some aliens leave behind when they die.

Anything coming UP the web towards you apart from power ups will kill you.

Shoot any thing that can kill you. Try not to die. Watch someone play Tempest 2000 on youtube to get the idea.