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[Schizophretard]

Cebus Capucinis, on Sun Jan 8, 2012 1:16 PM, said:

Just you guys wait, cd-w will get done with it and when you least expect it, announce his finished product for the low, low price of $26,000......gotta keep the market competitive you know!

J/K

I bet it will be a much lower price. It will probably be somewhere around $50 but still be more profitable than the $32k Air Raid CIB priced one.

[cd-w]

Schizophretard, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 3:51 AM, said:

Just you guys wait, cd-w will get done with it and when you least expect it, announce his finished product for the low, low price of $26,000......gotta keep the market competitive you know! .

If I do complete it (no promises) it will be sold in the AtariAge store at the normal price, like my other homebrew games.

Chris

EDIT: And I'll release the source and binary free as before.

[Legend]

cd-w, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 5:21 AM, said:

Schizophretard, on Mon Jan 9, 2012 3:51 AM, said:

Just you guys wait, cd-w will get done with it and when you least expect it, announce his finished product for the low, low price of $26,000......gotta keep the market competitive you know! .

If I do complete it (no promises) it will be sold in the AtariAge store at the normal price, like my other homebrew games.

Chris

Would you also make the rom available like your other games as well?

[cd-w]

It turns out that I really suck at playing Star Castle

Could someone who is good at playing the arcade version let me know what happens on the later waves, specifically:

• Do the rings increase their rotation speed?
  
• Do the rings reverse direction?
  
• Do the mines increase their speed (I'm reasonably sure about this)?
  
• Are there any other differences at the higher waves?

What I'm trying to do is determine the level progression, so I can work out what needs to be considered for the 2600 version.

Many thanks,
Chris

[Random Terrain]

Does MAME let you cheat and have unlimited lives or invincibility or let you skip levels?

[Pioneer4x4]

cd-w, on Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:24 AM, said:

It turns out that I really suck at playing Star Castle

Could someone who is good at playing the arcade version let me know what happens on the later waves, specifically:

• Do the rings increase their rotation speed?
  
• Do the rings reverse direction?
  
• Do the mines increase their speed (I'm reasonably sure about this)?
  
• Are there any other differences at the higher waves?

What I'm trying to do is determine the level progression, so I can work out what needs to be considered for the 2600 version.

Many thanks,
Chris

There is a new ring added every other level.  So after 10 levels, there are 5 additional rings.
I hope your kernal can account for that.

Actually, just kidding.  I haven't played it in decades, and yours looks excellent so far.

[potatohead]

https://www.youtube....feature=related

This guy knows how to play, and many of the progression elements can be seen.

https://www.youtube....feature=related

I liked this one too.  Longer periods of time at higher levels.

https://www.youtube....feature=related

Edited by potatohead, Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:53 AM.

[maiki]

I would like to see how that overall explosion is done on 2600.

[high voltage]

Like SW Death Star Battle would be good

[Godzilla]

I've always loved space master x-7s splosion :-)

[Goochman]

For some reason I thought there was 'gravity' that pulled you to the center you had to deal with - must've been a different game cause I didnt notice any gravity in the videos above.

[Nathan Strum]

Nope. Space Wars had gravity.

[cd-w]

potatohead, on Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:11 AM, said:

https://www.youtube....feature=related

This guy knows how to play, and many of the progression elements can be seen.

https://www.youtube....feature=related

I liked this one too.  Longer periods of time at higher levels.

https://www.youtube....feature=related

Thanks for the links - this is just what I need. For those who are interested, I've now got collision detection working in my star castle demo.

Chris

Edited by cd-w, Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:51 PM.

[Ethaniel]

Great work! I tried it on my PC last night and worked very smooth.
I hope you continue work on it.

[xybot67]

Looking good! I really hope you complete it.

[Pioneer4x4]

Hmm, i think someone at Seagate likes Star Castle, look at the logo for their "Seagate Dashboard" app.

[Syntaxerror999]

Looking good. Will you br charging 32k for it or just 16k

[solidcorp]

Star Castle is not a dead license after all.

I have persueded the licensor to give me permission to find a buyer for my cartridge.

After years of searching, emails, and phone calls it feels very good to have the legitamacy I wanted in the first place.

Scott

[Matthew]

solidcorp, on Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:54 AM, said:

Star Castle is not a dead license after all.

I have persueded the licensor to give me permission to find a buyer for my cartridge.

After years of searching, emails, and phone calls it feels very good to have the legitamacy I wanted in the first place.

Scott

You have no legitamacy, you have completely discredited yourself.

Fortunately another AA member has taken up the Star Castle challenge,  your version will be soon forgotten.

[ls650]

I look forward to seeing CD-W's finished work....

[solidcorp]

So do I, it looks great so far.

[Dino]

solidcorp, on Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:54 AM, said:

Star Castle is not a dead license after all.

I have persueded the licensor to give me permission to find a buyer for my cartridge.

After years of searching, emails, and phone calls it feels very good to have the legitamacy I wanted in the first place.

Scott

You shouldn't bother wasting your time. Having the rights to sell your one copy is pointless as the cart itself is near worthless. You need to get permission to distribute your version of the game in order to have something to sell....

[Keatah]

So if I was to purchase SC's SC, I couldn't then make it available to the community or have unlimited rights to do anything I see fit?

[Dino]

Keatah, on Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:40 PM, said:

So if I was to purchase SC's SC, I couldn't then make it available to the community or have unlimited rights to do anything I see fit?

Correct. You could only play it yourself   You'd need to get distribution rights to start distributing to other users

[Legend]

I kinda doubt if it was made available, there would be a big hub-bub about it from the copyright owners. Whether it's solidcorps version or if cd-w finishes his. Atari didn't make a deal about medieval mayhem or namco about the pac-man hacks being sold at the AA store. Plus some of the other homebrew games available are remakes.

There are free pc remakes of star castle floating around as well.

I don't think it would cause a stink with the IP holder. Especially if it was a free rom available.

Now, if it was a Games Workshop license, it would most likely be a different story. Those guys made the board game geek purge all fan created content even if it didn't contain any of their actual resources. Even shut down a freeware pc conversion of space hulk.