unhuman Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Found this link off of the Facebook group: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Surprisingly crisp and colorful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 That is definitely a beautiful thing--this was one of my favorite games back when it came out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 It's not April 1st again is it? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 0_0 that looks sweet!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 As the kids would say, OMFG. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperious Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Holy Guacamole!! How many Disks would this come on?? Come to think of it, is the TI even capable of running games via multiple disks?, and if so How could You do that with a nanoPEB?, You can't physically remove disk 1 and insert another. Edited May 11, 2015 by Imperious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Well, what is already there should max out just about any disk usable on real hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Holy Guacamole!! How many Disks would this come on?? Come to think of it, is the TI even capable of running games via multiple disks?, and if so How could You do that with a nanoPEB?, You can't physically remove disk 1 and insert another. Of course: it is just a matter of programming. As for the nanoPEB, perhaps if a program searches for its disks based upon disk name or rolls through all of the available DSK devices. Even if it did that, you would still be limited to three disks. At this point in TI World, if someone is going to write a multi-disk game I suspect the programmer could also manipulate the nanoPEB or CF7+ to mount new volumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 LOVE! Can't believe what I just saw and heard. Wow. And the colors! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 You could always set it up to load the data from one of the 2048K cartridges. . .that would get you a lot more than three disks would (unless they were 720K disks). Of course, if we get a 32M cartridge working, that would probably be plenty of space. Without a huge cartridge, you could set something like this up to execute from Hard Disk (or even CD ROM using the SCSI card). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 i remember ahhing at this game when it was finally released on the PC back around 1989 or 90 when VGA was readily available. It had if I remember correctly a document check that when you started the game it would ask you input a work on a certain page, paragraph, sentence, etc.. So we cracked it and jumped it over that. The game was very hard on the PC so we increased the lives to the max that we could (999). Still had a few people complain that they wanted unlimited lives and we told them if they could not beat the game with 999 lives then they needed to hang it up because they sucked.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Even if it did that, you would still be limited to three disks. Not at all! You change the mounted disk on the CF7/NanoPeb just by selecting the new disk index in the 6 bytes at the top of VRAM (two bytes for each of DSK1, DSK2, DSK3). I did this for my Convert9918A slideshow CF7 demonstration program, works fine! The demo there takes a little over 2MB already, sadly, and probably can not run from the CF7 (at least, I don't know how to directly access the CF card through it, and I don't have hardware to experiment with.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 It is beautiful, Tursi. Thank you for doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks for making a game I've always enjoyed into a TI possibility! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Not at all! You change the mounted disk on the CF7/NanoPeb just by selecting the new disk index in the 6 bytes at the top of VRAM (two bytes for each of DSK1, DSK2, DSK3). I did this for my Convert9918A slideshow CF7 demonstration program, works fine! I meant using the simple method of rolling through DSK numbers or disk names. Which I why I also said At this point in TI World, if someone is going to write a multi-disk game I suspect the programmer could also manipulate the nanoPEB or CF7+ to mount new volumes. It would take a modern program to do this since any older software is not nano/CF7-aware. I knew you could do this, I just did not know how, so this goes into the reference library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Not at all! You change the mounted disk on the CF7/NanoPeb just by selecting the new disk index in the 6 bytes at the top of VRAM (two bytes for each of DSK1, DSK2, DSK3). I did this for my Convert9918A slideshow CF7 demonstration program, works fine! The demo there takes a little over 2MB already, sadly, and probably can not run from the CF7 (at least, I don't know how to directly access the CF card through it, and I don't have hardware to experiment with.) Something similar could be done on the TI iwith the Lotharek HxC as well, although no one has yet attempted it. Theoretically, it could give the user instant access to quite literally MEGABYTES of programs and data. Just imagine... a new menu program that not only accesses a single program like normal, but also has the disk selection in the field. Considering how much stuff one can stuff on an HxC, the possibilities boggle the mind. << REFERENCE MATERIAL HERE >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Something similar could be done on the TI iwith the Lotharek HxC as well, although no one has yet attempted it. Theoretically, it could give the user instant access to quite literally MEGABYTES of programs and data. You're telling ME? The one who has pushed this method of file access for the last 15 years through Classic99? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I must look more often here in the development under forum, just BEAUTIFUL!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 It's just me going back and forth while I work out the frame indexes, and it's broken into many short videos because of my crappy internet, but I streamed some of the work I did earlier and for a few days (or whatever the expiry is) it's up on Twitch, if you want to see more of the video. (Expect the audio to be annoying to listen to, since I am mostly single stepping the frames). http://www.twitch.tv/tursilion/profile/past_broadcasts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 When I have to watch I usually mute videos, anyway. I hate listening to people with no speaking skills "ummmm" and "ahhhh" and just make vocalizations and speak inanely which have no purpose but to fill space. Most of the time as soon as I hear a voice I hit mute without even giving them a chance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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