Breakout-Based Non-Infringing Video Game

[Breakout-Based Non-Infringing Video Game]

I'm reading the joystick for now until paddle support is included. I wouldn't mind sacrificing a missile for paddle support.

 

Break-In sounds like a really great idea, but I don't think I have the programming knowledge to do something like that. Besides, Batari only supports 2 players

[HSC Season 3 Week 2: Front Line]

Supposedly Coleco did a shabby job of programming the 2600 versions of their games to boost Colecovision sales...

[Breakout-Based Non-Infringing Video Game]

And now I have a paddle. Bricks are needed.

[Breakout-Based Non-Infringing Video Game]

I gave up on my 5200 game. Instead, I'm starting work on a Breakout-style game! So far I have a bottomless rectangle that turns gray when you hit the black-and-white switch!

 

I do have a way to store level data. If it works right, the level data itself should be small enough for me to include a lot of levels! Of course this is me we're talking about, so it could be completely wrong...

[Atari 2600 Witchboard]

Haha, I remember that one! Meatwad was playing Video Ouija instead of hanging out with Shake, so Shake killed himself to put himself in the game?

[The time has come for Atari 2600 Dragon's Lair!]

I'd love to see how you bankswitch 16MB into 2KB chunks.

[2600 Maintenance]

I have an NES game cleaner. It's basically a wand with cloth on the end that you put alcohol on from the included bottle and rub on the edge connector. It resurrected my blinking gray screen games. If I knew how to open the connector, I'd try it on my Chopper Command cart.

[HSC Season 3 Week 2: Front Line]

What a terrible game.

 

900.

[Line Labels?]

Another thread says you can use labels instead of numbers. However, when I do

 

initprg:
player0x = wormx : player0y = wormy
player1x = applex : player1y = appley
applex = 75 :appley = 75
COLUPF = 90

 

DASM errors saying "cannot process line 'initprg' and refuses to compile. What gives?

[The time has come for Atari 2600 Dragon's Lair!]

So we've gone from "on the 2600" to "add more CPUs and we'll talk"?

[I beat David Yancey!]

I beat his #1 score on Twin Galaxies (here) at Koffi!

 

Too bad I can't submit an emulator screenshot

 

EDIT: Updated with >3000 score!

[Working on Worm for 5200]

I'll try that. I think the .inc files are what it uses to turn the commands into ASM. It just replaces, say, INPUT with the contents of input.inc, adding parameters where they belong.

[lemmings possible on the 7800]

Yeah, 16K of ram can't be more than a couple of dollars. Not like in 1987 when 16K would run you over $50.

[Working on Worm for 5200]

I thought it included all of those automatically?

[Working on Worm for 5200]

STILL doesn't work. Here's my .bas. Attached is the ASM. Somehow whatever I'm checking is being set to $0C, even though I'm not touching anything on the pad.

 

TITLE "worm 2005"
AUTHOR "luigi30"

SCREEN 4
KEYPAD 1
SET CHARSET=$9400
PALETTE 0,$60
PALETTE 1,$C6
PALETTE 2,$A4
PALETTE 3,$22
PALETTE 4,$E
MEMCOPY $9400,$3000,4096

WaitForStart:
DO
 SET SCREEN=$9400
 A = $00
 X = $00
 INPUT A
LOOP UNTIL A = $0C

GameReset:
SET SCREEN=$9800
DO
 PUT (50,100),$30,2
 SPRITES ON
LOOP

.ORG $9000
#INCLUDE worm.ttl

.ORG $9400
#INCLUDE worm.chr

.ORG $9800
#INCLUDE wormmain.ttl

WORM.txt

[What's wrong here?]

Dead TIA?

[Working on Worm for 5200]

They can make a working 2600 language but not a working 5200 language! It's been 3 days I still have no idea what the problem is!

[Working on Worm for 5200]

WaitForStart:
DO
 INPUT X
 IF X=$0C THEN EXIT DO
LOOP

GameReset:
DO
 SET SCREEN=$9800
LOOP

 

Broken!!!

[Any 5200bas gurus?]

Tell me why this doesn't branch back to WaitForStart even though I haven't pressed start on the keypad! It's driving me nuts!

 

WaitForStart:
DO
 INPUT X
 IF X=$0C THEN EXIT DO
LOOP

GameReset:
DO
 SET SCREEN=$9800
LOOP

[Channel F]

Isn't the Channel F a year older than the 2600?

[Working on Worm for 5200]

Loops. Loops loops loops. They never work. I don't see how my program can jump past waiting for a key to go directly to starting.

[Systems with best and worst controls?]

I have a 3rd-party N64 pad that's held up better than all my real Nintendo ones.

["Having cart problems?..."]

Your cart a splode?

[Working on Worm for 5200]

Here's my (rather sparse) title screen. Still got to figure out how to match Antic4 to the correct color code.

[5200 retail price *gasp*]

The DC is a Naomi with less RAM. Hydro Thunder's main board was a fully-featured PC.