Peg Solitaire

[Ninjabba]

With my unhealthy obsession for the system & no sense of priority in daily life, I just finished a quick implementation on Peg Solitaire. Both English and European variant can be played.

 

Nothing is gained once the puzzle is solved.

 

I think I'll try and add music to this, since I still need to dive into some implementation details for that. And probably some animated background to distract you from solving the game.

 

Controls:

- Select a marble with A, and set it to an adjacent target cell with A again.

- B cancels the first selection

- opt1 returns you to the intro screen.

 

If there are bugs in there, please let me know.. I was really hasty on this one.

PegSolitaire.zip

Edited February 2, 2011 by Ninjabba

[+TrekMD]

Cool, I will check it out!

[im_reg]

Great little game. I got down to 3 pegs on my first try.

[Ninjabba]

I'd really like to see a screenshot of a solved game I never solved a single game so far, but read somewhere that the strategy is to work symmetrically.

[+karri]

I'd really like to see a screenshot of a solved game I never solved a single game so far, but read somewhere that the strategy is to work symmetrically.

 

Nice implementation. Although I did not solve it on my first attempt.

 

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Karri

[rygar]

Very good job programming

With a little music would be perfect.

I finished the two versions and I saw no bugs.

Edited February 8, 2011 by rygar

[Willard]

i've been playing this game in the form of T-Break on the Bandai Pippin lately, pretty addicting. Will have to try this out once I get some free time to better learn how to use my flashcard

Edited February 8, 2011 by Willard

[Ninjabba]

Great to see people trying to solve it I still haven't solved it... but good to hear it looks like its bug-free. Now to fix some tune..

Edited February 8, 2011 by Ninjabba

[+karri]

Great to see people trying to solve it I still haven't solved it... but good to hear it looks like its bug-free. Now to fix some tune..

 

Don't forget a nice background. I like Gremlins style of adding atmosphere to a board game like this.

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Karri

[Ninjabba]

Ah good ol' HeroQuest. Pretty entertaining game, and another good example of what could be done on the Lynx. I was thinking of some nature scenes. Some running water with Eric Satie's Gymnopédie would be great..

[EricDeLee]

i've been playing this game in the form of T-Break on the Bandai Pippin lately, pretty addicting. Will have to try this out once I get some free time to better learn how to use my flashcard

 

LOL I need to re-learn how to use my Lynx Flashcard. LOL

[Felyx]

Cool Thanks Kari for that solitaire game as our Lynx are still hungry

[Ninjabba]

Here's an update of the Peg Solitaire game:

 

- added a few more boards (5 in total)

- added some gfx

- added the first chiptune I ever worked on

 

Controls are still the same

 

I mainly use this project as a test case for adding sounds/music. I am aware of the bug that when switching games the sound will keep hanging at times/resetting when starting a new game and whatnot more. This is mainly caused by the fact that I haven't figured out how to stop the music yet.

 

I'll post the source of this project later on, but gotta run for work now

 

Edit:

Thank you Sage for providing me the sound drivers! Credits for the tune go to Empty Space, got it from Mod Archive: http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=89762, and mixed by me using chipper

PegSolitaireV1.1.zip

Edited January 26, 2012 by Ninjabba

[Ninjabba]

^^ I mean Dr. Awesome with the tune Empty Space

[Atari_afternoon]

Thank you, Ninjabba

[rygar]

This new version is ablsolutly fantastic. Music, picture and 5 différentes versions I love it !

[sage]

This new version is ablsolutly fantastic. Music, picture and 5 différentes versions I love it !

 

Yeah, just that the picture has only 16 colors...

 

PS: How about using

asm("jsr SndStopAll");

or

asm("jsr SndPauseOn");

to stop the sound.

[Ninjabba]

Yeah, just that the picture has only 16 colors...

 

PS: How about using

asm("jsr SndStopAll");

 

Aren't the 16 colors one of the charms of the system? I have no idea how to use more colors

 

That did the trick btw! Attached is the bugless (?) version

PegSolitaireV1.2.zip

[sage]

Aren't the 16 colors one of the charms of the system? I have no idea how to use more colors

 

Wow, big big problem. Maybe ask someone. http://lynxdev.atari.org/picture_test5.zip

 

That did the trick btw! Attached is the bugless (?) version

 

What did you expect?

[Ninjabba]

Wow, big big problem. Maybe ask someone. http://lynxdev.atari...cture_test5.zip

 

Good point about the high colored images for small games.. its quite incredible that you can display 2000 colors at once on the screen! If I hadn't seen the slideshow demo before I'd say its black magic. I'll start asking around in the programming forum

[TailChao]

Good point about the high colored images for small games.. its quite incredible that you can display 2000 colors at once on the screen! If I hadn't seen the slideshow demo before I'd say its black magic. I'll start asking around in the programming forum

Changing colors like this during the active display is a very good tool on the Lynx. But it can take some time to think of good ways to make it seamless with a game.

If you just want to change things with a one scanline step, it is actually quite easy. Just have one of the system timers running in sync (or as close as possible) to timer 0 (HBL), then use it to feed another timer. Then you have a line counter. I usually use timer 1 fed into timer 3 for this. This is done in a few places in Zaku, like Marine Zone and Emp's battle, but I have been trying to find more interesting uses for it nowadays.

 

You can also change the colors mid-scanline for a million-jillion onscreen colors.

But of course the more you do this the more the 6502 is borrowed from running the game.

[Shawn Jefferson]

I'm assuming the techniques for more colors are:

 

1. Flip between two palettes and screens each VBL-more perceived colors, but also some flicker.

2. Change palette mid-screen one or more times, using HBL. Increase the overall amount of colors on the screen, but color use is still limited to 16 colors per scanline.

3. Mid-line changes, as above, but more CPU time involved, and still some restrictions on color use.

 

These same techniques are used in quite a few other systems, Atari 8-bit as one example.

[sage]

sure, hasn't changed in the last few years (since CGE slideshow)

just the algorithm got better

Edited January 28, 2012 by sage

[Pacmania]

I just picked up a copy of the new Atari User magazine and saw a very good review of this game in it! Has there been a cartridge release yet or is there any plan to do one, I would love to purchase one if there is.

[Ninjabba]

I just picked up a copy of the new Atari User magazine and saw a very good review of this game in it! Has there been a cartridge release yet or is there any plan to do one, I would love to purchase one if there is.

 

Thanks for telling me! I wasn't aware this got picked up. I've been asked for a cart release a few times, but I would need to have a few mini games + do some polishing before I think its cart worthy. I was actually working on this, but then the unfortunate event of a burglary happened and the thieve(s) stole my laptops with source code. After that I haven't touched the project because of frustration and I'm focussing on Wyvern Tales that hopefully will be a cart release.

Edited May 25, 2013 by Ninjabba