LASooner

Let me know if you find any bugs

Just an FYI, if you're running anything in windows 10 you can hit WIN+G and it will allow you to record a video of whatever window had focus when you hit it. It records audio and video in mp4 in your video directory, you can even record dialog over it if you have a microphone hooked up. I've found it results in better videos.

Isn't there software for the Lothartek Drive that converts from DSK to HFE? I haven't done it for a while but I did it when I was trying out some XB programs on real iron

Updated ROM in Post 1 Changed all projectiles to characters instead of sprites, flicker should be at a minimum. likely the only time you'll see it is when the bunker sprite appears, or after you blow up a robot. But bullets shouldn't ever disappear except when passing through another bullet, an explosion or a blinking gun. Order of sprite priority is #1 and 2 Bunker sprites #3 Player sprite #4 Main Robot #5 and 6 Bats/Secondary Robots #7 Spider The Bunker sprites only show up when the player is within 16 Pixels of it, so effectively all the important sprites should never disappear. I haven't got any feedback or bugs except for the guy on YouTube making fun of it. So this will probably be the last update for a while. BUG FIXES: Look into using chars for bullets to reduce sprite flicker Optimized character set for simpler collision checks

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What can you use with the trackball I've always wondered?

I don't know how much faster I'm going to be able to get it.

I have one, but haven't had time to set mine up yet. I got the Amiga 2000 CPU slot adapter for the Vampire so I can switch it back to stock quickly if I need to.

Well you sold me, I just ordered one for my black and aluminum and one for my beige

I've used it on Classic 99, and http://js99er.net/, but t works great on real hardware as well.

Because your font is 8 pixels high filling the whole character you may want to consider putting a blank line between level score and total score for better readability

Give this man 8 more K to finish that game!

Updated Rom Image in Post 1 Bug Fixes: Better player collision handling. Slight performance increase.

Rom Image updated in Post 1 Bug Fixes: Robot Shields don't display correctly Player can clip through wall on 2nd and 3rd column pass through intersection Player is occasionally being killed twice on the same bullet Extra man after 20000 doesn't show up until you kill something after 20000 or any progression after that

That did it

You should change the Subject of Post 1 to better reflect the new direction

Updated Rom image in post 1 Finally got the level 4 black robot destroying the bunker, that's basically it for the original game features, I'm calling this BETA. Hit me up with any bugs you find. BUG FIXES Fixed the color of the bunker buster bullets to yellow Level 4 Robot destroys bunker

Updated Rom Image in Post 1 You can now shoot hanging bats for some easy kills early. Fixed an issue where the gun was getting overwritten by explosion graphic from bats and spiders. Optimized routine for moving and animating the character, slight performance increase. BUG FIXES: Bullets don't kill hanging bats. Attract mode wasn't properly looping, crashing after credits screen.

Updated Rom image in post 1 Finally got the bat explosion characters done and working, no longer sprites so should help even more with flicker issues Put a new title attract screen, uses existing char set, added a credit screen with shout outs to you guys who've helped me Will continue to try to optimize it down enough to also include the original title screen I created, but it's not looking great there. Biggest remaining hurdle is bunker busting Level 4+ robot bullets and I will continue to try looking into using screen characters instead of sprites for the bullets, my first attempt didn't go well. Bats hanging from ceiling on Spawn Add explosion graphic for bat or spider death (spinning disc temp) Find space or make new title screen Add an attract screen mode, to give the player time to start the game and explain scoring

Putting a sound muted sound in front of all the PLAYER2 FX seems to have fixed my problem with the sound hanging. Thanks for your help guys

Updated Rom image in post 1, Also updated video Finally got that hanging sound bug fixed thanks to Senior Falcon's suggestion of killing all sound channels before playing the sound Also "thickened" up the spider sprite so it will look better on CRT's plays spawn sound when you get an extra man I feel like I'm in the home stretch on this thing. Level 4 Robot shots kill player bullets Black Robot fires larger projectile Fixed Bug Robot shot sounds hanging until next shot

Kinda like God wishing you luck on your ported version of earth

It's not a huge deal to do that, in trying to fix it, I added a line of muted channels to the end of my sound , seems the mistake was not adding it to the beginning. I'll try that out instead. You think it can be any duration?

If you made the tank symmetrically square you could save 9 sprites.

The outlines could be filled in and be lower priority sprites, so they would be under the color sprite, that way you could use the same outlines for the good guy as well as the bad guys, because the differences would be in the color sprite. They appear to have the same silhouette. That saves you one sprite anyway. But it means your shadow sprite could be solid. Frame 4 and 5 of your explosion are similar enough, I think you could get away with removing one of those. If you do something similar with the tank sprites, IE. solid backing sprites, detail in the color sprites, you might be able to save a sprite or two.