Gorf

[tjb]

I just finished playing the excellent version of Gorf for the Jaguar by 3D Stooges. It made me wonder if the game was written from the ground up or if it uses emulation? It seems to be spot on compared to the arcade version. I was hoping someone from the 3D Stooges group might chime in with some technical details.

 

tjb

[ls650]

If you do a search, I'm sure you'll find several comments from Gorf as to it being written from scratch, and that no emulation or borrowed code is used.

[ovalbugmann]

Yes, it was written completely from the ground up specifically for the Jag, absolutely no emulation. It's the only home version that has the Galaxians level.

[+doctorclu]

I just finished playing the excellent version of Gorf for the Jaguar by 3D Stooges. It made me wonder if the game was written from the ground up or if it uses emulation? It seems to be spot on compared to the arcade version. I was hoping someone from the 3D Stooges group might chime in with some technical details.

 

tjb

 

Sure looks like emulation doesn't it. I'm sooooo glad Gorf had one of these left when he was selling them. And he hangs around here so hopefully he'll chime in.

 

If you like this, "Surrounded" also by Three Stooges is a good "Space Zap" clone brought up to a date a little. That one is free to upload for BJL and JUGS users.

Edited September 19, 2008 by doctorclu

[tjb]

I just finished playing the excellent version of Gorf for the Jaguar by 3D Stooges. It made me wonder if the game was written from the ground up or if it uses emulation? It seems to be spot on compared to the arcade version. I was hoping someone from the 3D Stooges group might chime in with some technical details.

 

tjb

 

Sure looks like emulation doesn't it. I'm sooooo glad Gorf had one of these left when he was selling them. And he hangs around here so hopefully he'll chime in.

 

If you like this, "Surrounded" also by Three Stooges is a good "Space Zap" clone brought up to a date a little. That one is free to upload for BJL and JUGS users.

 

I agree. It does look like emulation. I was kind of hoping it was emulation so that we might someday see Wizard of Wor for the Jag. I wasn't aware of Surrounded, I'll have to check it out. Admittedly I haven't been paying enough attention to the Jaguar scene. Thanks for the info.

 

tjb

[JagChris]

It would probably take more work to create an emulator for the Jag than it would to redo the game from scratch.

[Gorf]

I was eventually going to port my Astrocade emulator to the Jaguar

but most Jaguar products from 3DSSS are being dropped. Gorf for

Jaguar is 100% written from scratch in C using only the 68k and DSP

and OPL.

 

I never finished the Astrocade hardware emulator due to the fact that

no one had a VOTRAX emulator.....till now....but I 'm still not going to

bother. 3DSSS will be no longer after Dec 31, 2008. A dozen years in

this community is more than enough for me.

[+doctorclu]

I never finished the Astrocade hardware emulator due to the fact that

no one had a VOTRAX emulator.....till now....but I 'm still not going to

bother. 3DSSS will be no longer after Dec 31, 2008. A dozen years in

this community is more than enough for me.

 

Shame. So what does 3DSSS have in mind between now and then, and what do you plan to do afterwards?

 

Astrocade would have added some fun things to the Jaguar platform. What was the chipset based on?

[Gorf]

Shame. So what does 3DSSS have in mind between now and then, and what do you plan to do afterwards?

 

Very little if anything. You might see Mad Bodies....and maybe Mighty Frog some day.

 

Astrocade would have added some fun things to the Jaguar platform. What was the chipset based on?

 

 

It was a Z-80 based system with custom support chips...the same chips in the arcade machines.

These chips were the Address, Data(these handled video and MMU tasks) and I/O chips(sound

and user input).

 

They were the same machines logically. Memory map and I/O mapping all the same. The only

difference between the home console and the arcades was more RAM/ROM and even an extra

I/O chip for more sound channels. Gorf and Wizard of Wor arcade also used a Votrax voice

synth chip and a sparkle circuit....the sparkly shield in AstroBattles and FlagShip.

 

All of these could be added to a Home Astrocade chipset. The only thing is Bally when they designed

the home unit, did so in such a way as to make it impossible to use Hi-res mode without totally hacking

up the entire PCB of the system.

[+doctorclu]

Shame. So what does 3DSSS have in mind between now and then, and what do you plan to do afterwards?

 

Very little if anything. You might see Mad Bodies....and maybe Mighty Frog some day.

 

Yeh hopefully. As much as those were talked about you'd think they were ready for release like two years ago. More Compact Flash hold outs?