Space Harrier News

[Sheddy]

I'd have no problem with it being converted to file. I'm sure Fandal could do it, but it may be more work than you imagine.

Edited December 15, 2010 by Sheddy

[Rybags]

It'd be a fair bit of work.

 

On the other hand, using MEMAC on VBXE would be fairly easy - banks can be mapped to the exact same location, just the switching method changes.

[+rdemming]

It'd be a fair bit of work.

 

On the other hand, using MEMAC on VBXE would be fairly easy - banks can be mapped to the exact same location, just the switching method changes.

 

If I understand it correctly, Space Harrier uses an 8Mbit/1Mbyte card. If it is mostly used (more than half), then it could only be converted to a file version for machines with an 1MByte upgrade. VBXE has 512KB so that won't be enough in that case.

 

Also in that case, a file version won't fit on a standard ED, DD or even QD floppy. It then will only fit on an harddisk (or loaded via SIO2PC).

Robert

Edited December 16, 2010 by rdemming

[Rybags]

Forgot that for a sec...

 

I've got 830K usable all up, but even that mightn't be enough.

[Bryan]

I would imagine that it's 1MB all expanded and ready to plot. It might fit on a floppy compressed.

[+rdemming]

I would imagine that it's 1MB all expanded and ready to plot. It might fit on a floppy compressed.

 

Yes, I suppose it could be compressed so it fits on a floppy. But I find decompressing a 64KB program already slow on an Atari 8-bit.

So decompressing 1024KB of data will throw us back to the loading times of the tape era

 

 

Robert

 

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But maybe for these kind of graphics data, a faster algorithm like RLE could be used although I wonder if such algorithm would compress enough.

Edited December 16, 2010 by rdemming

[Bryan]

We'll need a cute depacking tune.

[pseudografx]

We'll need a cute depacking tune.

If Fandal is to make the conversion, he surely will have a nice and fast depack routine at hand

[MEtalGuy66]

It needs 1meg just to run a single level? Or 1meg total for everything? Disk loads between levels would not be bad.. Maybe it could be done to run on a 256k or 320k machine, but load the data from disk in between levels.. MyIDE can load > 64k/sec nowadayze..