NYC Resistor Demo at Maker Faire

[+bcombee]

I used batari Basic and Harmony to make a nice demo for the NYC Resistor booth at Worlds Maker Faire here in New York. My writeup is at http://www.nycresistor.com/2010/10/11/atari-2600-demo-for-the-win/.

 

This was my first real batari project -- I'd played with a few simple sprite ideas a couple of years ago, but hadn't really touched it since moving here from Austin. With VisualBB, it was a really nice environment.

 

The demo just ran in a loop with no controls. I used the autorun feature on the Harmony cart to keep it going, even across power glitches. The monitor we were using didn't have audio, so I didn't program in any sounds. I'd like to add more to this -- music and some interactivity would be nice, but I'll probably try to keep it under 4K so we can easily burn a cartridge for safekeeping at the hackerspace.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvlydgCWYLM&feature=player_embedded

 

Quick question -- has anyone done a mod of Stella or another emulator to let you create a movie file while playing a game? I had to capture this with a screencast tool, but it would be alot cleaner to just have the emulator feed frames to a video encoder.

[yuppicide]

I know there's a version of MAME that records your key presses I think, and then later on you can play that back. This is what Twin Galaxies uses. I wonder if that's something easy that can be implemented with Stella.

 

I like your little demo. You're a member of NYC Resistor? It's a bit far for me (I'm in New Jersey), but I thought of coming for the Epilog laser class and do a burn test. I have some ideas of things video game related.

[+bcombee]

I like your little demo. You're a member of NYC Resistor? It's a bit far for me (I'm in New Jersey), but I thought of coming for the Epilog laser class and do a burn test. I have some ideas of things video game related.

 

Yeah, I've been a Resistor member for a little over a year now -- I coordinate classes at the space. There's a group in Jersey called FUBAR Labs (http://fubarlabs.com/) that might be closer to you and does similar stuff to NYCR.

[yuppicide]

Yes, I do know Fubar. I'm don't think they have a laser, though. It's very close to me.. maybe 15 minutes or less.