simoncam Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Hi to the ATARI community! After the release of Laserball for the ST I stumbled over another old GFA Basic Game-Torso I made in 1990 – a driving simulator… ok… kind of… it was a technical experiment on the mathematical background of making a road “move”. Well… I could not let go the past evenings and had a fairly good run … And it has become some kind of a complete anarchic “crash everything in your way” kind of thing… haven’t you ever dreamed of crashing into a tree and see it explode? And it don’t even slow you down! And yes: you can shoot rockets on everything in your path… for no apparent reason. Here is a video of the current status. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA7OpLLwcxA Its all very down technical at the moment. And the biggest thing missing: Some decent graphics!!! My cars look terrible! So does everything else! So before I go on creating a game out of this … ähhh… whatever it is…:Is there a ATARI ST artist out there who would like to contribute some nice 16 Color graphics? Oh yes… one thing before excitement hits too hard: This is written in GFA Basic (as I never mastered to learn anything else) The frame rate is faked by pushing the STeem emulator to 16mhz. So this will be an “emulator only” thing, as it plays with only 7FPS on a STE 8mhz Setup… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I wish I'd have seen this now before asking you on FB.. lol I hope people here will help with this 'home-brew' game release and you find yourself a graphics guy. Or indeed somebody that could possibly help speed up your routines to get this onboard running at 8mhz, for the real physical STs .. Good luck Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exxosuk Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I asked for graphics help some months ago for a game (can't even remember what now) but never had any replies Just rip graphics from some other game instead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 darn that's sad .. Surely the ST scene isn't devoid of such talented ppl???? :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exxosuk Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 darn that's sad .. Surely the ST scene isn't devoid of such talented ppl???? :-( There probably is some lurking somewhere about, but no idea who. Though even if someone is found, its them having time to help. I used to be into programming games in STOS years ago, though it pretty much came down to lack of graphics, but more recently lack of time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayreon Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Atari-forum.com and DHS.nu have more sceners than this place. There's also places on Facebook where they hang out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) There probably is some lurking somewhere about, but no idea who. Though even if someone is found, its them having time to help. I used to be into programming games in STOS years ago, though it pretty much came down to lack of graphics, but more recently lack of time That I can totally understand.. we're all older (wiser?) and with families and commitments. Gone are the teen years and bedroom days with tons of free time for the ST STOS was pretty cool, wasn't it. I'm no coder (at all!) but I did enjoy many of the games. Recently played Prehistorik and then I found out this was a STOS game too. Edited August 27, 2015 by ataricrypt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exxosuk Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Did not remember that Prehistorik was a STOS game I put all the STOS stuff I could find here http://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/STOS_index.htm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simoncam Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 Thanks! I have found some ATARI fans that are helping me with the graphics! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ataricrypt Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Did not remember that Prehistorik was a STOS game I put all the STOS stuff I could find here http://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/STOS_index.htm Wow that is one ACE site!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exxosuk Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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