GroovyBee Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 We keep our hopes up you will get one soon and make us Aquarius users as happy as the Inty community Its not going to be any time soon unfortunately. Its a loooooong list . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaman Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 (edited) Thanks for the kind offer but unfortunately I'll have to decline. I have quite a few machines ahead of the Aquarius in my "must do something for" list. Of course we wouldn't want to steal you from the other machines like the Inty and Atari 7800 But at the rate you are producing these games, this "must do something for" list could reach the name Aquarius in a not to distant future Edited June 4, 2013 by Aquaman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I say we push forward with writing BASIC games and converting them to cart. That's something that normal Aquarius users can do now without begging brilliant developers like GroovyBee. Please note I wasn't pointing a finger at anyone other than myself. I just offered to give the bloke a free Aquarius 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaman Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I say we push forward with writing BASIC games and converting them to cart. That's something that normal Aquarius users can do now without begging brilliant developers like GroovyBee. You are right and of course we have our own magician Jay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Great to see a quirky Llamasoft classic making its debut on the Intellivision! I still don't know how you manage to do such prolific work on so many different systems, GroovyBee. I'm especially impressed by it since I started doing my own projects—which, despite my best efforts, always seem to progress about as quickly as a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter. Congratulations, and I'll be picking this one up for sure! (As for the Aquarius ... not to take this off-topic, but if any aspiring Aquarius programmers want to get started on their own BASIC games, as theloon suggests, there's no reason to wait! We've got the Virtual Aquarius emulator, we've got Martin's conversion tool for creating cartridge images, and I've got everything needed to publish the games on real cartridges for anyone who's interested. I'd eventually like to set up a little Aquarius publishing operation similar to Atari's APX, and to bring out a few games of my own, but that's a story for another thread.) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Of course we wouldn't want to steal you from the other machines like the Inty and Atari 7800 But at the rate you are producing these games, this "must do something for" list could reach the name Aquarius in a not to distant future The main problem for me is that I pick a machine to do a project on and then while working on that project I'll get other project ideas to do on the same machine. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 I say we push forward with writing BASIC games and converting them to cart. That's something that normal Aquarius users can do now without begging brilliant developers like GroovyBee. I'm not familiar with the speed of the machine's built in BASIC but you might want to start in BASIC and then move parts of the code over to assembler (for speed) as your project progresses. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Great to see a quirky Llamasoft classic making its debut on the Intellivision! I still don't know how you manage to do such prolific work on so many different systems, GroovyBee. I'm especially impressed by it since I started doing my own projects—which, despite my best efforts, always seem to progress about as quickly as a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter. Congratulations, and I'll be picking this one up for sure! Not all projects make equal progress. Some days a project can romp on and other days... well... not so much . Working in teams helps quite a bit too. You end up getting the best out of one another and you get tons more ideas on the directions things can go in, new project ideas and plenty of testing as well. (As for the Aquarius ... not to take this off-topic, but if any aspiring Aquarius programmers want to get started on their own BASIC games, as theloon suggests, there's no reason to wait! We've got the Virtual Aquarius emulator, we've got Martin's conversion tool for creating cartridge images, and I've got everything needed to publish the games on real cartridges for anyone who's interested. I'd eventually like to set up a little Aquarius publishing operation similar to Atari's APX, and to bring out a few games of my own, but that's a story for another thread.) Its good to see the Aquarius homebrew scene gaining some ground. Although I'm not an owner of the machine its always fun to see other peoples projects and to hear about their trials, triumphs and war stories. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 The main problem for me is that I pick a machine to do a project on and then while working on that project I'll get other project ideas to do on the same machine. You just keep those Inty ideas flowing and we'll keep buying them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 If we manage to clone Groovy, can I get one with flowing blonde hair? No specific reason......... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 If we manage to clone Groovy, can I get one with flowing blonde hair? No specific reason......... :rolling: :rolling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 If we manage to clone Groovy, can I get one with flowing blonde hair? No specific reason......... He supposed to get cloned for programming, not for...uhm...other reasons... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaman Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 I'm not familiar with the speed of the machine's built in BASIC but you might want to start in BASIC and then move parts of the code over to assembler (for speed) as your project progresses. This is exactly what I am trying to do. Not exactly due to speed reasons, but more to make use of the sound and controller capablities of the mini-expander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaman Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 . I'd eventually like to set up a little Aquarius publishing operation similar to Atari's APX, and to bring out a few games of my own, but that's a story for another thread.) Isn't opening a webshop on Ebay not easier or does this involve a lot of costs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vprette Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 updates?!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 updates?!?? I think its already been released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 I think its already been released. WHAT?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vprette Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 any news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjarnold7 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Can't wait for this game also....any idea of release date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Make it so, Number 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Engage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Mystery Musician has done a brilliant job on the title page and intro sequence music. The Inty's rendition of an English Country Garden (as used in the original A8/C64 game) fits the game very well. There are a few loose ends to tie up and a couple of bugs to fix before I can put out a new gifeo. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar G. Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Great news. Thank you for the update!... I love Intellivision music... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjarnold7 Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Is this game still going to be released? Just curious, I know there are a lot of projects going on now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 I think it is a summer/fall release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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