doctorclu Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 That is simply too amazing to be true. Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Too bad, that GR8 software is inactive these days (so we will never see YAKF on GR8 cart, I fear). The guy would come up with a cart, a great cart-label, an even greater package and manual and all for less than 45 bucks. I'm sure that Nosty will come up with something more, when he finds enough time and funds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 F-SICK (!!!) I will load on my 8 MB AtariMax cart tomorrow, and check this out on my 800XL... Outstanding work! F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 OK pretty sure I asked this already, and not in a disrespectful way more in a curiosity kind of way because I am trying to learn about the various funky screen modes and stuff for A8, but why are the colours quite dark? Is it the video? Is it a feature of the colours you can choose for the selected screen mode the game is running in? Has there been a change in the screen modes used in the last 3-4 years? etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Oky... the "darkness" could come from the special mode Chris is using... he is using interlacing between 2 Gr.7 screens for the main screen to gain more than 4 colours for the gfx.I guess you tube is blending them together as it uses 30 FPS. On real TV sets it looks good I am sure. ps. as here are UK guys... do you prefer colours or colors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Oky... the "darkness" could come from the special mode Chris is using... he is using interlacing between 2 Gr.7 screens for the main screen to gain more than 4 colours for the gfx. Interchanging 2 colours at the same brightness is better to they eyes. But, not sure what is meant by "quite dark". The game varies with many brightness values. It's just not "Candy coloured" I guess you tube is blending them together as it uses 30 FPS. On real TV sets it looks good I am sure. ps. as here are UK guys... do you prefer colours or colors? How about "Farben" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sack-c0s Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) True fact: as I kid I was told my spelling was great, but I always got told off for not being able to spell 'colour' correctly. Suppose it was my own fault for using commodore basic v3.5 What would be nice now the game is done is if some kind of postmortem was written about what went well, what turned out to be difficult, what tricks were used, etc. because that kind of stuff interests me and I'm wondering if any of the knowledge gained could be used in other Atari games, or even adapted for use elsewhere because that is one seriously bloody smooth looking game! If people could build on that work in the future and get more and more games out of it then that would be the icing on the cake Edited July 6, 2011 by sack-c0s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) Probably this engine would make for a quite nice Lotus game By the way, as the question has not been answered by the authors, yet... Any chance of a file version for 1 MB RAM expanded ATARIs? Edited July 6, 2011 by Jacques Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvas Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 What would be nice now the game is done is if some kind of postmortem was written about what went well, what turned out to be difficult, what tricks were used, etc. because that kind of stuff interests me and I'm wondering if any of the knowledge gained could be used in other Atari games, or even adapted for use elsewhere because that is one seriously bloody smooth looking game! If people could build on that work in the future and get more and more games out of it then that would be the icing on the cake Have you checked all the entires in http://sheddyshack.co.uk/category/news/ ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Sack... Post Mortem would be great as I always enjoyed stuff like that at gamasutra.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 I am definitly interested in the DLI/Digi routines plus the sprite draw stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) Oky... the "darkness" could come from the special mode Chris is using... he is using interlacing between 2 Gr.7 screens for the main screen to gain more than 4 colours for the gfx.I guess you tube is blending them together as it uses 30 FPS. On real TV sets it looks good I am sure. ps. as here are UK guys... do you prefer colours or colors? No preference needed, 'color' is wrong, it is 'colour',.... honour, humour, cheque (as in cheque book), etc as opposed to the USAers (wrong) spellings. Anyway, great version of Space Harrier on A8, still, didn't like the game on C64, don't like it on A8.... Edited July 6, 2011 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerduck Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) Really great work done! But for those like me, not that familiar with the game, is there a possibilty to make a game manual? The "story", stages, features, the enemies, tactics and so on... Me and many others(?) would appreciate that. Best regards Tigerduck (metamorphosing into "Space-Harrier-Duck ) Edited July 6, 2011 by Tigerduck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Great effort here - played it on my 130XE Flashcart last night. Boy, if only quality titles like this were released for the 8bit way back Nice work and alot of fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonl Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 But for those like me, not that familiar with the game, is there a possibilty to make a game manual? The "story", stages, features, the enemies, tactics and so on... Here's the manual for the SMS version in HTML form: Sega Master System Manual Cheers, Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheddy Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 Thanks for all the kind words, people Regards a version for 1MB machines: will need to think about it; there are a few things that complicate it, such as screen clipping relying on the memory where the cart is to be read only. I'm really not too keen on having to re-do and re-jig everything right now, but I'm willing to help someone else if they are familiar with porting stuff to these upgrades. Regards manuals...it's just a real basic arcade shoot em up - No story or real tactics required ...just shoot everything or get out of its way if it won't die 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 I'm really not too keen on having to re-do and re-jig everything right now, but I'm willing to help someone else if they are familiar with porting stuff to these upgrades. Does that include an Atari 7800 console version if somebody was interested in doing that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) I'm really not too keen on having to re-do and re-jig everything right now, but I'm willing to help someone else if they are familiar with porting stuff to these upgrades. Maybe Fandal could help? I think he's already done the file version of Commando ( http://atari.fandal.cz/detail.php?files_id=5610 ), which originally was developed for cartridge, too... Edited July 6, 2011 by Jacques Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Looks at SHeddys dev blog....hmmm Sheddy, should have gone to Specsavers mate Seriously tho, great game, brilliant release, you air are a fine coder.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Excellent looking game. I've never been a fan of Space Harrier itself but the game looks great. I especially liked the use of the "Super 7" mode ... Graphics 7 @ 16 colors, and I think it would be great if more Atari games were coded using these interlace/flicker modes. Now that this game has been done, I wonder if other similar 3-D games (Buck Rogers, Subroc, etc.) could also be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerduck Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 But for those like me, not that familiar with the game, is there a possibilty to make a game manual? The "story", stages, features, the enemies, tactics and so on... Here's the manual for the SMS version in HTML form: Sega Master System Manual Cheers, Simon Thanks, is this version simular to the ATARI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 And now, for something completely different, err, off-topic. Can the engine of SH be used for other games, e.g. "Afterburner" or something like that ?!? -Andreas Koch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 And now, for something completely different, err, off-topic. Can the engine of SH be used for other games, e.g. "Afterburner" or something like that ?!? -Andreas Koch. 6502 1.79MHz + gr. 7 = everything is possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) And now, for something completely different, err, off-topic. Can the engine of SH be used for other games, e.g. "Afterburner" or something like that ?!? -Andreas Koch. I've said here some Months ago that those Sega Arcade Shoots are real good ones to try... Driving ones like OutRun or Hang-on probably Flicker would not look good. But I said on that post that Galaxy Force could be the best one to use this. With the Sheddy code and someone remake the Gfxs... it certainly would be the best example I remember. But I wasn't an Arcade user... what other ones do you remember (Sega or any others)? Edited July 6, 2011 by José Pereira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheddy Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 I'm really not too keen on having to re-do and re-jig everything right now, but I'm willing to help someone else if they are familiar with porting stuff to these upgrades. Does that include an Atari 7800 console version if somebody was interested in doing that? That could be very interesting on a 7800 with enough RAM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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