Since I decided to give up on the Mr. Stick game, and that my batch of games from the first game I ordered came, I wanted to work on a follow-up game. So what I decided to do last night was work on my Game Gear game I was making and turn it into a Game Boy game. Work on this has begun. I spent a lot of time working to make the guy there have enough tiles to be displaying as well as have room for the alphabet and other stuff. The mouth is a sprite. I'm making it so pressing A opens the mouth and
So last night, I finally put a score in the game. I could make a longer one if I wanted, since the score is basically just showing numbers, like in my Game Gear games. I was so wrapped up in thinking that a score needed to be a variable that I forgot about that option, displaying numbers on the screen like that. So NOW I'll take a break because I don't know what to do in the game next. Of course I'll put in different levels, which require different colored background colors, but of what, I don
So I finally worked out a couple problems with my Commodore 64 game and now I can continue. One of the problems was solved fairly easily, while the other took quite a long time. In the end, I figured out what the problem was. And then I figured out how to stop it. That second part was the one I spent the most time on. The problem: The computer was registering a hit at the title screen, forcing it to go back to the title screen when the joystick button was pressed. The solution: Wait until the hi
Milestone today. I got Congo Bongo for the Commodore 64 in the mail today. It works fine, the only issue is it's really hard. If you gave me a million years to complete level 2, I don't think I ever could. Talk about a sharp increase in difficulty! Anyway, my Commodore 64 cartridge collection now stands at 10. I am puzzled over my game I was making, I have an issue where some collisions don't happen. Sometimes the fry just goes right through the broccoli. Not all the time, that's what's really o
It's one of those cases where the game looks exactly the same but the code is different. In this case a lot different. I noticed some stuff. Like how sometimes if the burger is touching the cloud and the fry hits the broccoli the broccoli doesn't disappear. So I slowed the game down a little. Didn't help. I saw something though. I wondered if I could determine the sprite collisions of more than two sprites if I used $D019. A few false starts later I got it working. Sprite 0 is the burger, spri
Got 4 packages in the mail today. Gee, what the mailman must think of me. I ordered these on separate days, and they all came on the same day. 4 Commodore 64 games, 2 Game Boy games and a 2600 repro were all added to "the collection." I was working on something until 2am, then I worked on my Commodore 64 game for a while. Went to sleep at about 3:30am and didn't get up until 2pm. I'm having trouble with a few registers. They are set once the game starts but if I attempt to change them due to w
So I had some long convoluted code in order to keep the bits in $d010 under control. Then it occurred to me that I could probably just turn the bits on and off instead of changing the whole value at once. One Google search later led me to how to do this. I added the vegetable in, a lovely piece of broccoli. Thus leading me to only have 34 lines of code expanded instead of a lot more. My day began at 6am. While sleeping, I figured that Nine Inch Nails is never going to release a follow-up to the
No, not Sid Caesar. No, not SID the Spellbinder, the SID, the one responsible for Commodore 64 sounds. It stands for Sound Interface Device. With help from AtariAge member carlsson, I now have sound in my game. It takes some getting used to talking to SID, but once you know what to say to it, it will reply with glorious music (well, as glorious as you can make the music.) I have to make another, longer SID file for in the game. I don't know if I can have more than one, though. I probably can,
I guess my game is going to have to be silent. I made a .sid file, I found some code on how to activate the SID. I put it in. Nothing. I tried it with just the code, creating an all-new .asm file. Silence. But at least my game is looking a little bit better after adding the French fry to shoot. That was one heck of a few hours of cursing and yelling. I made it a dark sky so you can see the French fry better. It came up on the cyan colored background, but it was hard to see.
I made a lot. Now I'm tired. Here is a screenshot of the game so far. I am wondering what to do about the border, though. If I get rid of it, the clouds end early and that looks ugly. If I put it in, the clouds end okay, but the big border looks kind of ugly. Next up, I want to do some music for the title screen. Right now the silence is really awkward. And then make the burger shoot French Fries. And make a sound effect for it. I have no idea how sound works on the Commodore 64. I'll have to d
So I can't do hamburgers. I tried and tried but could not get multicolored sprites to work. It kept giving me the sprite as if it was not multicolored. So I decided to instead put lettuce in the game. I put in a lettuce sprite. And I have it moving back and forth. I don't really know how to define variables yet, so I had to guess. I am guessing this is ok? Because it works. It's right after org $1000.
MOVETIMER = $64MOVETIMER2 = $65DIRECTION = $66
I also had to reacquaint myself with using
there. Now what I want to do is have this start automatically WITHOUT me typing "SYS 4096." The * symbol does not want to work in DASM, so * = 1000 is out of the question...
A few years ago, I bought a Commodore 64 at a used video game shop. Periodically I get it out and play with it and then it goes back in the garage. The first computer I ever used (when I was 3 or so), was Commodore 64. But sadness came the day Dad sold it because he bought me an NES. Anyway, I want to get back into C64 collecting. But there's a problem: The prices of games. Why are Commodore 64 games so freaking expensive? Right now I have 5 games: Clowns, Frog Master, Omega Race, Radar Rat Ra
Well, apparently there is no SMB1 calendar for 2019. Shucks. I thought up of a good joke for my SMB1 comic. Since all of the ones are screen grabs of an actual SMB game in progress, I had to time it just right to get this one. Fortunately, you can press PAUSE and the game freezes so you can get a good picture from your emulator (like the guys who programmed it back then thought of emulators!) Since this is the only update to the SMB1 Page that I maintain, I'll just put the comic here. I also hav
I have been making a new game for the Atari 2600 called "4-Mula." Here is its backstory: Alien Professor McScooper was hard at work creating the successor to 3-Up called 4-Up. This was, of course, the days before 7-Up. The humans wanted to try 4-Up for themselves. They had heard it was 1,000 times better than Coke or Pepsi and wanted it so badly they sent a guy into space. Bob Lbjsdfk, donning his spacesuit, snuck into McScooper's lab and got the bottle of 4-Up. The only trouble is he doesn't
I tried and tried to get the food to move down when Mr. Stick did the wrong thing, but the stupid program kept disobeying me. That leaves me no choice but to give up on it. I am so sick of computers disobeying me that I could just die. Why do they all have to be so f***ing evil? Perhaps the Amish are right.
So I worked on Mr. Stick for five hours straight last night. Work began at 5pm. I went and started adding improvements to the game. Then lots of wrong crap started happening. I went to sleep with a broken game. I woke up and worked on it some more. This was the most common problem: Yeah. It started doing that. Whoopee. So after a few more hours, I think I finally got that under control. I played for 7 minutes and it didn't show up once. So here's what I changed. + Added a second food item on sc
That's the subtitle of the Didj game I played a little of last night. It's the SpongeBob game I was going to play in honor of Mr. Hillenburg's passing. It took a while, but I found out that I had left out batteries in it so they wouldn't corrode. Thus, in order to play any game, I would either have to put 4 AAs in or play it with the charger plugged in. I went the charger route, even though unfortunately the cord wasn't long enough for me to play whilst sitting on the toilet so I had to stand up
Well, the time has come to finally sell stuff I don't use any more. I can't walk around in my room. It has a whole pile of games and game consoles on its floor. So I'm going to sell some of it. But while I was going through it all to find stuff to sell I came across my old LeapFrog Didj handheld console. It had been ages and ages since I last powered the thing up. In fact, I think some of the games are meant for kids the age of which I last played the thing actually. It's an edutainment device
Back in July I started an off-shoot of my website for the Intellivision. I didn't tell anyone. Time marches on. Cut to now. I got my prizes for finishing second in the contest today. They guy dropped off the package at 6:30 at night. I didn't know that the mail people worked that late. Getting the Intellivision stuff got me inspired to work on Intellivision coding. So I've started a new project on the Intellivision. And you can see the first image of its title screen at my website intellivisio
Today's update to the game is one that you can't see. I put all the letters back. I had been using q for the tree and z for the land. But since I decided to make the game better looking, I didn't need to replace letters for 8x8 tiles. And I had been using j for the stick-lives icon. I put that to the beginning of the lowercase letters. The uppercase letters I made lowercase just because. The game doesn't have that much text in it anyway. I bought a Game Boy game. I woke up at noon and went to
So I got an e-mail saying my Game Boy games were finished (it took at least 3 months) and that the 10 copies I had wanted will be shipped now. I think the guy is in Europe, so it will probably take a while for them to get here, especially during Holiday season where people ship a lot of packages.
That inspired me to work on my second Game Boy game (third if you count Oranges). It took a few hours, but I finally made the title screen for Mr. Stick a lot better looking. I added another tree an
AtariAge member emerson made a frog for me. It is way better than the one I had. I spent a few hours today struggling with collision detection for the frog but I think I finally got it working. Since I have nowhere to go for Thanksgiving, I slept until 11am. It was nice. I have my turkey TV dinner I am going to fix for dinner. It's actually raining for the first time in months. Too bad it had to be on a holiday. Oh well. The people will get soaked Black Friday shopping tomorrow as well. Ha ha. H
In order for one to have a good game, one must have good graphics. It's okay if you're, for example, makng a puzzle game, but I'm not. So the graphics have to be reasonably good. I am working on Frank the Fruit Fly for the Pokemon Mini again. I decided to put a frog sprite in the game and have Frank avoid it and its tongue. But the problem is, I can't draw frogs. At all. Frogs and horses. And, in fact, almost everything else for that matter. So I need a pixel artist. If you want to help, here
I suppose the reason aardvarks eat ants is because that's the only thing that's around to eat, outside of plants. Anyway, I put some ants and an anthill in the game. Aaron can now eat the ants, but the ants don't do anything yet. The tongue was successfully put in, although I had a hard time getting collision detection for it because to easier make it go in the game, I copied the aardvark sprite, put the tongue in and then erased the aardvark in Photoshop. This was around midnight. I woke up at
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