Heaven/TQA #1 Posted December 9, 2009 just have seen the video for the first time... could be piece of cake? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #2 Posted December 9, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMgjmIW8fd8&feature=related Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PeteD #3 Posted December 9, 2009 Go on then.. It's one of my favourite games. On any platform. Pete Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #4 Posted December 9, 2009 It would benefit from faster line draws. Maybe even a worthwhile VBXE game... line draw on VBXE should be quicker again since normal DMA can be turned off and the pixel address can be calculated quicker. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrFish #5 Posted December 9, 2009 Pretty cool looking game. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popmilo #6 Posted December 10, 2009 just have seen the video for the first time... could be piece of cake? Don't just look at video Play the game its even better One of the games that should be made for A8... could really show what it is capable of. Wouldn't be piece of cake ... Geoff Crammond is a legend ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sloopy #7 Posted December 10, 2009 i played this on the amiga, it was alright but a game for the C64 called 'Street Rod' i really liked, actually bought a C64 to play it when the c64 i was borrowing had to be returned. only piece of c64 software i ever bought, and still own actually... http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D2501 sloopy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
STE'86 #8 Posted December 10, 2009 Sloopy, not sure if u know but Street Rod was also an amiga title. and it was even better than the 64 one i too played it to death on the amiga. one of the few amiga games i played alot of. street rod amiga and did u know it had a sequel? street rod 2 amiga Steve Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Random Terrain #9 Posted December 10, 2009 Sloopy, not sure if you know but Street Rod was also an Amiga title. And it was even better than the 64 one. I too played it to death on the Amiga. One of the few Amiga games I played a lot of. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPJU8ERC-I&rel=0&fmt=18&showinfo=0 Never played that or the one in the original post. I must have been visiting another planet for a while. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
carmel_andrews #10 Posted December 11, 2009 RT...That looks suspiciously like Red Rats/Europress's 'RAC Lombard rally' (v .similar visuals) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #11 Posted December 11, 2009 just have seen the video for the first time... could be piece of cake? Don't just look at video Play the game its even better One of the games that should be made for A8... could really show what it is capable of. Wouldn't be piece of cake ... Geoff Crammond is a legend ... well... even Geoff is a genius but most of the game looks like to be maths and fast draw routines... and even without looking into the code I suspect that by organising the draw playflied in c64 matter we might could reuse the draw engine... and the car seems to be overlay by sprites or even a gfx layer copied over each frame... would be tough if he used every bit of the 64kb... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #12 Posted December 11, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbZpr4bMLM and if not using the c64 code... XXL could use the Speccy code... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sloopy #13 Posted December 11, 2009 Sloopy, not sure if u know but Street Rod was also an amiga title. and it was even better than the 64 one i too played it to death on the amiga. one of the few amiga games i played alot of. street rod amiga and did u know it had a sequel? street rod 2 amiga Steve yeah i knew it was on the amiga, but didnt get an ami until '92, and by then i was head of tech dept in a local mac store that had contracts with all the local schools, and did consulting on the side, so i didnt have alot of time for games... even when i did get to play games on the A2000 i had, i didnt get to play much, usually freeware etc. did mostly C programing, and then using unix like dev env, then later linux... sloopy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PeteD #14 Posted December 11, 2009 lol Poor xxl, he gets called out to do everything Shame there's no BBC version. Pete Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miker #15 Posted December 11, 2009 (edited) XXL has his "game-line" long enough, so currently no new requests are accepted. Sorry! But if someone else can do this... Edited December 11, 2009 by miker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #16 Posted December 11, 2009 i would might have a look after gridrunner... along with beyond evil... but a full AAA c64 game to convert might be more Wrathchild's job... my c64 knowledge is far as good as my poor atari one... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #17 Posted December 11, 2009 (edited) just have seen the video for the first time... could be piece of cake? Don't just look at video Play the game its even better One of the games that should be made for A8... could really show what it is capable of. Wouldn't be piece of cake ... Geoff Crammond is a legend ... btw. just saw your signature... are you really from serbia? my ants are from Subotica... hahaha ANTS is cool... Edited December 11, 2009 by Heaven/TQA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heaven/TQA #18 Posted December 11, 2009 just have seen the video for the first time... could be piece of cake? Don't just look at video Play the game its even better One of the games that should be made for A8... could really show what it is capable of. Wouldn't be piece of cake ... Geoff Crammond is a legend ... btw. just saw your signature... are you really from serbia? my grand parents are from Subotica... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wrathchild #19 Posted December 11, 2009 but a full AAA c64 game to convert might be more Wrathchild's job... It's somewhere on my list Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popmilo #20 Posted December 11, 2009 well... even Geoff is a genius but most of the game looks like to be maths and fast draw routines... and even without looking into the code I suspect that by organising the draw playflied in c64 matter we might could reuse the draw engine... and the car seems to be overlay by sprites or even a gfx layer copied over each frame... would be tough if he used every bit of the 64kb... Here is some info about it: http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/the-making-of-stunt-car-racer When I got back into Atari I looked at two of Geoff's games: Stunt car racer and Sentinel. Those were the ones I thought would be doable on A8 and with better speed than C64 could achieve. I just loaded it in Vice and found out it uses simple bitmap multicolor screen with double buffering. Line drawing routines in that mode are sloooowwwww.... On A8 it could be done in linear mode and speed could be improved alot. I dont know if trying to convert it from C64 or spectrum would be the right way.... Yes you get graphics from those but its a vector based game anyway... New version wrote from scratch should be good enough, and "feel" could be tweaked until its good enough... And while doing 3d on A8 already, one could make sentinel too Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popmilo #21 Posted December 11, 2009 btw. just saw your signature... are you really from serbia? my ants are from Subotica... hahaha ANTS is cool... ... btw. just saw your signature... are you really from serbia? my grand parents are from Subotica... So your Ants are from Subotica Yes I am, really I finished college in Subotica, and still go there often for business and pleasure I'll send you pm, this is about Stunt car racer after all Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wrathchild #22 Posted December 11, 2009 Someone asked on the Elite thread if 'Aviator' could be done. Maybe we could attempt Geoff's earlier work first and work our way towards SCR? e.g. Aviator, REVS, Sentinel then Stunt Car Racer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+remowilliams #23 Posted December 11, 2009 Stunt Car racer is a fantastic game, I've played tons of it on the ST. Recently played the C64 version as well and was rather surprised to see it wasn't awful. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pps #24 Posted December 12, 2009 Oh yes, Stunt Car Racer was funny to play. There are so many great titles, that never reached the A8 Maybe sometimes dreams become true Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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