kenfused Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 The 192 lines comes from the 16K RAM needed to store the 4BPP data for the video display's bitmap. I don't want to get into scaling because it'll slow the game down quite a bit. In the latest version I've moved the level's wire frame graphics down the screen by adjusting the final coordinates that the 7800 has to plot. It still needs some work to get the score, high score, lives and level all on screen at the same time but I think it'll look and play fine when its been optimised. Maybe you could shorten the zones by one line (ie. Don't display every 8th row or something like that). Of course that might not look good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Wow - this is awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 Maybe you could shorten the zones by one line (ie. Don't display every 8th row or something like that). Of course that might not look good. As far as I can see the game screens will completely fit on the 7800 display just by moving them down 24 pixels so its not an issue at the moment. However, any other games that use the maximum height of the Beeb display would require many more tweaks other than straight code porting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 Wow - this is awesome! Thanks for the compliment, however all I'm doing is ignoring unsupported Beeb OS calls, turning joystick input into fake keys and drawing points and lines . The original Superior Software Beeb game was sanctioned by Atari so I'm guessing this is a good version of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 You are too modest sir. If anyone could do it, they would. AX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 wrong thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_Salamon Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Those pics look amazing! I'm soo glad to see the 7800 getting a version of Tempest... it belongs in the library of all Atari Systems (2600-Jaguar) Continued success and I wouldn't complain if someone could post a couple more pics! (No CC2 for me so all I can do is drool like I used to reading Electronic Games back in the day! lol ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+HatNJ Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Thats great looking so far no CC2 either but the Wii will do for testing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_Salamon Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Thats great looking so far no CC2 either but the Wii will do for testing Pardon my ignorance but how can I get this to run on my Wii? I know nothing about emulators and such, nevermind getting them to work on my Wii! That would be a great way to go to test 7800 WIP's though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+HatNJ Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Thats great looking so far no CC2 either but the Wii will do for testing Pardon my ignorance but how can I get this to run on my Wii? I know nothing about emulators and such, nevermind getting them to work on my Wii! That would be a great way to go to test 7800 WIP's though! I used http://wiibrew.org for my info when I installed the Homebrew Channel and then got Raz0red's Wii7800 and Wii2600 emulators They both work pretty damn good (wouldnt replace either of my consoles for emu's but for WIP Testing not bad) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 This is really damn cool!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacfan97 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Finally!!!! Tempest is being ported to the 7800! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapetino Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Very cool! Any status updates? (I just bought myself a 7800 for the upcoming XM.) BTW, I don't have a Cuttle Cart, so would the Harmony Cart allow testing of a ROM like this on the 7800? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Nothing new to report. Debugging anything serious on the 7800 emulators is a royal pain . It won't work in the currently available Harmony Cart which is solely targeted at 2600 use. However, if the H2 allows 16K of RAM I don't see why it wouldn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapetino Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Nothing new to report. Debugging anything serious on the 7800 emulators is a royal pain . It won't work in the currently available Harmony Cart which is solely targeted at 2600 use. However, if the H2 allows 16K of RAM I don't see why it wouldn't work. Thanks for the update. Hmmm...so there is going to be a Harmony Cart 2 that could be used for the 7800 as well? Is that brand new? I hadn't heard anything about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Thanks for the update. Hmmm...so there is going to be a Harmony Cart 2 that could be used for the 7800 as well? Is that brand new? I hadn't heard anything about it. Here ya go :- http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/165892-h2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Did you ever figure out the end of level bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapetino Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Thanks for the update. Hmmm...so there is going to be a Harmony Cart 2 that could be used for the 7800 as well? Is that brand new? I hadn't heard anything about it. Here ya go :- http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/165892-h2/ Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Did you ever figure out the end of level bug? No! . Debugging anything serious is hard work on the 7800 when its code you haven't written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[d2f]Iggy*SJB Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Finally!!!! Tempest is being ported to the 7800! THIS! Groovy- Please put me on the "I want this cart" list(when one happens). You're a great programmer, and this is definitely a cart I want. I don't do emulators, so I'll be waiting to play it on the original hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 I hope you make this a downloadable binary (for free or for pay), I don't do real hardware.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 20, 2011 Author Share Posted May 20, 2011 There are several playable ROMs (with known bugs ) in this thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaWarrior Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 When is the Final Game going to come out, I want to try the lastest version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Its done when its done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaWarrior Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I just wait til it's on cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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