Ze_ro Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 D'oh! Stella doesn't like illegal opcodes --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 28, 2001 Author Share Posted December 28, 2001 One thing I neglected to mention is that pressing SELECT skips to the next tune in the demo. I'm waiting to see how long it takes people to figure out what games all the tunes came from (there are eight different ones). ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 28, 2001 Author Share Posted December 28, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Ze_ro: D'oh! Stella doesn't like illegal opcodes Not right now, but the possibility exists that this support will be added in the near future. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 Good ol illegal opcodes and all the wonderful things they let us do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 EXCELLENT!!!!!! Oh man Starfire was one of the first videogames I loved as a kid.. I'd watch people play the cockpit version and pretend I was commanding them to shoot the Tie Fighters Now this was a GREAT idea for a 2600 port.. why didn't I think of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyXB Posted December 28, 2001 Share Posted December 28, 2001 The first tune is easy, but I will not tell now. And I think I know the second and fourth too, but I don't know from which games in the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legeek Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 I knew the songs! But I'll let others guess; there is a common "theme" to the different songs BTW. heh -le geek P.S. Looking forward to the game, it should be sweet! Good luck fellas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 29, 2001 Author Share Posted December 29, 2001 /development_page.html?InDevelopmentID=32Manuel Polik (Gunfight) and Thomas Jentzsch (Thrust) have teamed up to work on a 2600 port of the 1979 arcade game Star Fire. At present they have created a high-res (for the 2600), animated title screen and have included tunes from eight different 2600 games. Can you guess what they are? There's no game yet, but it will be a title to watch as development progresses. You can download the binary image here, and you will need to run this in z26, as it uses illegal opcodes not yet supported in other emulators. [ 12-28-2001: Message edited by: Albert ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted December 29, 2001 Share Posted December 29, 2001 Now this...is cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 THEY ARE ALL PARKER BROTHERS GAMES!! i think they are all in order! Starwars theme Frogger theme Skyskipper theme Frogger II theme Gyruss song (toccata and fugue in D minor) by johann sebastian bach James Bond Theme Mr Do!s castle song Popeye song WHAT DO I WIN??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 ooh! i know! how about a jaguar controller? cause i need one! just a suggestion.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeknPoke Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 ooooh I loved Star-fire, as it was the only time (then in 1979) that you could play a decent version based on Star Wars in the arcades(in fact, as a kid I thought it was star-wars!) It should be a great version with those two guys behind it. Im hoping to do a feature on the development soon on my website and im going to email the guys (I loved Thrust and Gunfight too boys!) Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 Hi Jess! quoteTHEY ARE ALL PARKER BROTHERS GAMES!! Well, correct! And your list is correct, except that the Star Wars theme was in fact taken from Jedi Arena. I thought it sounded better than the versions from TESB and SW-Arcade. My intention was to gather the 8 best Parker tunes longer than 5 seconds into that demo. Now I wonder which of these tunes is generally considered being Parkers best music. I hope that maybe Alex or Albert could do a poll sorting that out... BTW: It's currently open how much influence Thomas will have on the future of the Star Fire project. We just teamed up for the demo as is, where he did all the main coding (and I had lots of fun ripping these tunes ) But I'll definitely continue the project and I'm sure Thomas will heavily influence it, as he did with Gunfight. I'm sure I'll need his help with 3D math anyways Greetings, Manuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 and my prize is....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyXB Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 Well the first tune was the Star Wars, that I know too. Now I know, why I knows the second and fourth tune too. Frogger, long time that I not play it, so I forgot the theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Cybergoth: BTW: It's currently open how much influence Thomas will have on the future of the Star Fire project. We just teamed up for the demo as is, where he did all the main coding (and I had lots of fun ripping these tunes ) But I'll definitely continue the project and I'm sure Thomas will heavily influence it, as he did with Gunfight. I'm sure I'll need his help with 3D math anyways Yes, Star Fire will be Manuel's project. He will have to do all the hard work and I'll only have a lot of fun, like coding the intro screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 Thomas, nice intro... i love your Thrust conversion... it looks better than the atari 8bit conversion by firebird... back to star fire... the intro is brilliant... what i was wondering is HOW have you done the painting of the logo? this is an fx i never come up with an idea how it works (except all precalculated as an animation...) can you give me a hint? heaven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 Hi Heaven! quotecan you give me a hint? Well, you asked Thomas, but I can give you a hint, too: TRACE-Alghorithm Greetings, Manuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Heaven/TQA: nice intro... i love your Thrust conversion... it looks better than the atari 8bit conversion by firebird... I think, Manuel answered you question about tracing the Star Fire logo, but thanks for the Thrust compliment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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