8bit-Slicks: Promo Video

[_The Doctor__]

Wow that takes us leading up into 2003 I think as a release, but much earlier for dev.... I think someone is using a younger picture of themselves for the interwebs.... that's about 15 years back, but savage had a long run and was resurrected... Might be on steam as is the case for most comebacks... that was quite the time to be an online gamer!

Edited January 15, 2018 by _The Doctor__

[8bit-Dude]

I think someone is using a younger picture of themselves for the interwebs....

Ah Ah! That picture was taken only 4 years ago, I am aging very gracefully!

Edited January 15, 2018 by 8bit-Dude

[_The Doctor__]

Must be the food, wife, or life... send some our way!

[8bit-Dude]

Definetely the food (and the girlfriend who cooks it!): my stomach loves Japan!

Edited January 15, 2018 by 8bit-Dude

[Gunstar]

Although when I look in the mirror, I look to myself like I'm 49 now, but others still guess me at about 10 years younger. I always looked young for my age, looked 25 until I was 40, but once the hair started going...well, I think I look about my age now...but someone was really surprised just last week when I said I was 49, they thought I was their age; mid 30's. So that made my day!

[+toddtmw]

So, it looks like it is hard to find CS8900A development board.

 

Can we play this with Altirra? If so, does anyone have a tutorial on how to get it set up?

 

Thanks!

[8bit-Dude]

Can we play this with Altirra? If so, does anyone have a tutorial on how to get it set up?[/size]

http://8bit-slicks.com/?topic=how-to-setup-altirra-with-dragoncart

[8bit-Dude]

I started work on the Apple II/e port yesterday, and progressing very very fast!

[+Philsan]

I started work on the Apple II/e port yesterday, and progressing very very fast!

Good news!

 

A2 doesn't have sprites, what do you do for cars?

A8 has sprites but not enough so tyres flicker. It would be nice if they don't flicker.

[Level42]

Thread title says "promo video" but uhhhmmmm......is there already any video footage posted ?

 

Would love to see it in multiplayer action

Edited January 16, 2018 by Level42

[snicklin]

Thread title says "promo video" but uhhhmmmm......is there already any video footage posted ?

 

Would love to see it in multiplayer action

 

There is - it confused me a bit at first, it is hidden behind the embedded graphic in the post.

 

Here is a direct link anyway:

[8bit-Dude]

The 2nd combined Atari/C64 Testing Session will be on Sunday 01/21, 13:00-15:00 West European Time (WET).

 

There is still time to register here: Closed-Beta

[_The Doctor__]

same software? or should we expect email?

[8bit-Dude]

I sent an email yesterday, did you receive it?

[_The Doctor__]

I may be at an appoitment for this, I will try to squeeze it in either before or after, I think I'll manage an hour of testing..

[_The Doctor__]

I highly suggest more testers join, it's worth it...

[_The Doctor__]

no, It did not come yesterday... probably because we had to change my name. The _ caused issues

[danwinslow]

That looks awesome.

 

Does the Altirra DC emulation work with it?

 

Also, I have about 5 original DC's left.

[_The Doctor__]

Using real hardware and the DC it played very well across traversing all the way across the pond... although I couldn't make the last test.

He has instructions for Altirra setup on the slicks site.

[+Philsan]

My 800XL (U1MB, stereo, s-video, CRT monitor), together with Dragoncart, worked without issues.

 

I took part in all tests (01:25:14 racing time).

[8bit-Dude]

Also, I have about 5 original DC's left.

Do you plan to produce another batch soon?

If the game is received as well as I hope, you may get quite a few inquiries...

 

For Altirra setup, see: http://8bit-slicks.com/?topic=how-to-setup-altirra-with-dragoncart

Edited January 23, 2018 by 8bit-Dude

[_The Doctor__]

That would make a decent set if people wanted a full package retail deal on the game, game with DC. Conversely this might be the impetus to get that other Ethernet card project going. Less reliant on the Atari doing all the heavy lifting... Both would be excellent!

 

@danwinslow how much you selling those now hot to have dragon carts for?

Edited January 23, 2018 by _The Doctor__

[8bit-Dude]

If the game takes off, can people here at Atariage help organize such a retail package launch?

It sure would be nice to earn a little from all the hard work I put into this! :-)

[danwinslow]

Do you plan to produce another batch soon?

If the game is received as well as I hope, you may get quite a few inquiries...

 

For Altirra setup, see: http://8bit-slicks.com/?topic=how-to-setup-altirra-with-dragoncart

I was mostly the money, Mark Dusko was the actual hardware guy. He has his design up on his website, though. I am sure he would have no problem if someone wanted to make another run. I have not heard from him in some time, but his atariage handle is puppetmark. I would imagine that dropcheck or one of the other folks still producing boards would be able to handle it. I think a pass-through cart would be much better, and/or a PBI device. The CS8900A is hard to source in 5 volts. Lots of people seem to think that a 'all in one' with its own TCP stack is the way to go, but unless it has a memory mapped transfer bus it won't work very well. SIO is not capable of handling it. And, as you've seen, a dedicated single purpose stack is very doable on the eight bits, especially to support UDP.

Edited January 23, 2018 by danwinslow

[8bit-Dude]

Mark Dusko was the actual hardware guy... I have not heard from him in some time, but his atariage handle is puppetmark.

I was in touch with him by email last week, he knows about 8bit-slicks.