Success! After a second try, I finally got batari BASIC up and compiling on my computer. I saw the episode 1 of the Mr. Celery show cartridge I had made, and thought "I finished it, why not have episode 2 made into a cart as well?" So while I'm thinking, I thought about the platform game I was making for the 2600 on my old computer about the celery, when I thought "I'll try again to finish it." Well, what I did was for the first time since St. Patrick's Day, worked on that game. I have three banks free, but only 179 bytes left in the 8th bank, where the graphics are kept for each 32k game. I played it for a while, playtesting it. I made a level selector (that won't be in the final game) so I can test whatever level I want. I only have 6 levels made, and I was apparently working on level 6 when the computer died. Luckily I had it on my website, so I could easily get it in case something like that happened. And it did. What I need to do list:
- Make layout for level 6 (right now it's using the level 1 layout.)
- Think of ideas for level 7.
After level 7 I'll see how much room I have. I would like to make a castle level with a final boss being a giant pig. With the lava monster in level 4 being a sort of mini-boss. And this morning I also worked on the Intellivision Celery game. Whatever Mom made for her dinner sure made my eyes water and my nose hurt from the evil smell. I saw her earlier and she had a cut up piece of celery on her cutting board. Perhaps what she made bothered me so much was because it had celery in it!
For those interested about the 2600 Celery game, go here: http://www.atari2600land.com/50foottallcelery.html