dmx

It's in Retro Gamer issue 145 (2015)

Nope, didn't change the fall speed. In fact, I only ported over labels from the C64 version, the Atari version is not based on the same code, but the original, which I didn't disassemble. So it should be all-original. RJF did indeed port over the Atari code to the C64. The C64 version's logic only runs every 3rd frame, btw. So RJF probably increased the movement speeds. Quote:

Hi Paul, sorry I missed this one. Cheers! Working on some stuff for the 64, but nothing really concrete yet. But some ideas are brewing, and unsurprisingly they often involve martial arts.

It's probably on the C64 only; what I presume is spritedata masks are calculated for collision detection. It's probably not present, or needed in the Atari version. But that also meant that I could re-use the "classic" masks for TIX's sprites, so the collisions behaved exactly the same way on both versions. Anyway, I had a go at it last night, and although I wasn't able to finish it in in the time allotted (I couldn't even finish the 64 version), it's perfectly playable in normal mode!

I decided to stream this version of ROF (on Altirra, sorry) in about 45 minutes! Hop on in and say hello while I die, die and die. https://twitch.tv/dmx87

Congratulations on the release, Ute, Fantomas, TIX and testers! Saw the VOD of ZeropageHomeBrew, was fun. I admit it looks really hard, and especially in Hard mode. But that comes with the territory. I actually had the same problem with the C64 version, the perfect-collision generator made it way too hard to play with TIX's sprites. The solution was to let the calculation routine run it's course on the classic sprites, then just copy the data into a binary file and use that. The result was that the excellent TIX vesion plays the same as the classic. I look forward to play this myself, but in PAL mode. The more relaxed speed is what I'm used to from the days of yore.

Where do I deliver the music

Yes, managed to finish it, it's the full game!

Hi! I just tested it! (With cheats - I had to, it's so tough, and all the timings are off compared to what I'm used to) - I managed to complete it - I even have a video of it, since I did it on Twitch. Anyway, it's very much playable, even if timing's "off" compared to the C64 version, but that's no big deal, it's just learning the version. The hardest room is the "multi-floor-light" part (3rd near the end) - that's practically impossible without cheating. I recommend slowing down those floor lights a notch A hint for floor lights is to keep jumping, don't run if you're not 100% sure what you're doing. Great work! If you need the music, I'd be happy to do them in RasterTracker for you. I got all the notes Here's another secret in the C64 version - don't tell anyone: If you jump far left in the first screen, you'll enter a dark room. Move to the left, then jump jup left, and you'll pick up a lamp and get an extra life, and "DMX" will light up. Now, if you did AFTER picking up the first two lamps, you'll get another extra life when you pick them. So you can start with 6 falls! But well done on the conversion!

Conversions look great! - I'll ask Sparkler for permission (I'm sure he's fine with it.) I assume there are plenty of skilled musicians around these parts, but should the need arise somehow, I'll be happy to have a go at the music.

Wow, this looks great! It'll be fun to try out a real port! Hope you don't mind if I tweet about it? ?

Great news indeed! Let me know if you need anything off ROF-64! Cheers, dmx

My pleasure to help. Looks like this is shaping up nicely, looking forward to playing it

Oops, sorry, didn't intend my quick'n'dirty search replace job to be actually assembled, only to be used as a reference, but seems you got it right anyway. Nice work!

Some tables are "word" tables, while some are split into hi/lo e.g. Table TableH = * + 1 !word something !word something While others: TableL !byte <something !byte <something TableH !byte >something !byte >something And so on And yes, I do recommend to build a "good" binary first, then when reversing, do a file compare (windows: fc \b myre.bin good.bin) to confirm they match. Often one gets a tiny bit wrong, and have to hunt for it maybe for days!