Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:06 PM
Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:04 PM
Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:50 PM
Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:02 PM
For that wonderful response, may I present to you this wonderful...
Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:27 PM
But anyway yea you cant stop some ones dream jsut becuase no one had try it yet
Edited by supercat, Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:29 PM.
Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:30 PM
"Well, you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which gets filled first. "
I think I know which hand will get filled first there!I think someone needs to make a $1000 car that could get 100mpg yet have a 0-60 time of under 5 seconds. Such a car would be a tremendous boost to the ecomony, since the reduced demand for gasoline would result in a reduction in price and an even bigger reduction of the total amount people spent on it. It's obviously a good idea--why don't you go make it?
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:16 AM
Here's some more mockups screenshots this time with the Terget Gun Site ti macth the arcade game and also add more on the mountin and the next pic is the tank is also wird fream vector like. Dont think it came out right with thwe tank but hey.
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:25 AM
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:17 AM
Offering up mock screen shots without offering any suggestion as to how they might be achieved, however, is not useful. At minimum, you should offer any insights you have as to why you would expect your proposals to work.
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:10 AM
I know one thing, those mockups Atariboy2600 did are AWESOME!!
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:14 AM
Offering up mock screen shots without offering any suggestion as to how they might be achieved, however, is not useful. At minimum, you should offer any insights you have as to why you would expect your proposals to work.
That's exactly what I thought. Of course I wasn't so eloquent.![]()
Back in the day when I use to run "Jerky's Arcade Hacks", I'd get e-mails like this all the time. "You should put South Park characters in PacMan!" - stuff like that. And I'm like, "Dude, you do it!"
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:05 PM
Edited by R. Jones, Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:14 PM.
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:34 PM
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:44 PM
I attached a zip file showing the different parts of battlezone individually. A few thoughts about your mock-up:
- The background (which is a solid color all the way across the screen) is used to create the bottom part of the mountains. This is why the tanks in the foreground can move over the mountains. Changing the mounains to be vector-hollow would probably require large changes to the game.
- A large part of the tank appears to have also been drawn with the background. It would be difficult to hollow out for the same reasons.
- Changing the tank graphics would very easy.
- Changing just the colors (sky:black, ground: black, mountains:green, tank: green) of the background would be pretty easy with a commented disassembly.
Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:22 PM
Posted Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:58 AM
Going along with R. Jones, a more feasible arcade hack would be something like:
Black sky and ground, solid mountains (medium to dark green)
hacked graphics for enemy objects. (brighter/lighter green to stand out from bkg)
I'm not sure how difficult it would be to modify the crosshair. What's there already serves it purpose well.
Removing the player tank is probably easiest to accomplish by revoming data and/or changing the colors to match the background.
Stationary objects would be the toughest task, as it would require changes to the game logic (to block your movement) and the display kernel. probably easiest to stick with box objects (maybe solid) as those may be doable with ball or missile objects.
Just all speculatory right now. Ever tried messing with the bit-hackers, Atariboy?
Posted Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:25 PM
Posted Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:19 PM
There are emulators for linux...
Posted Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:33 PM
Here's some more mockups screenshots this time with the Terget Gun Site ti macth the arcade game and also add more on the mountin and the next pic is the tank is also wird fream vector like. Dont think it came out right with thwe tank but hey.
Robot Tank is closer to your mock up than Battle Zone, so I think Robot Tank could be hacked into a better Battle Zone more arcade like graphics than Battle Zone.
Robot take has the sight for aiming already there it has no first person tank to get rid of either.
All that would need be done is to change the colors and hollow out the tanks.
Maybe I'll try this.
Wade
Posted Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:41 PM
Here's some more mockups screenshots this time with the Terget Gun Site ti macth the arcade game and also add more on the mountin and the next pic is the tank is also wird fream vector like. Dont think it came out right with thwe tank but hey.
Robot Tank is closer to your mock up than Battle Zone, so I think Robot Tank could be hacked into a better Battle Zone more arcade like graphics than Battle Zone.
Robot take has the sight for aiming already there it has no first person tank to get rid of either.
All that would need be done is to change the colors and hollow out the tanks.
Maybe I'll try this.
Wade
I concur...though it would still be missing the barriers that make BZ challenging to begin with. And the result wouldn't be possible to burn to a cart anyway due to the bankswitching used.
Posted Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:20 AM
Here's some more mockups screenshots this time with the Terget Gun Site ti macth the arcade game and also add more on the mountin and the next pic is the tank is also wird fream vector like. Dont think it came out right with thwe tank but hey.
Robot Tank is closer to your mock up than Battle Zone, so I think Robot Tank could be hacked into a better Battle Zone more arcade like graphics than Battle Zone.
Robot take has the sight for aiming already there it has no first person tank to get rid of either.
All that would need be done is to change the colors and hollow out the tanks.
Maybe I'll try this.
Wade
I concur...though it would still be missing the barriers that make BZ challenging to begin with. And the result wouldn't be possible to burn to a cart anyway due to the bankswitching used.
So you think its posable in hacking Battlezone into a arcade like game?
Posted Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:13 AM
Edited by Pac Munchkin, Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:22 AM.
Posted Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:26 AM
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