BuckoBrand Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Hi! In this topic, we will talk about Magellan and it's greatness. Magellan allows you to create scenes and codes to use in the CALL CHAR subprogram. We will post pictures of our maps. Here is one of mine... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Magellan can be a very useful program. TI.mag 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckoBrand Posted January 19, 2019 Author Share Posted January 19, 2019 Oh, NICE!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) A tileset for the F18A. Some of it my own design, some of it (green) borrowed from the net. tileset.mag Edited January 20, 2019 by Asmusr 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckoBrand Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 See last post by me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckoBrand Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Here is my next map. Flier.mag 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bones-69 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 A tileset for the F18A. Some of it my own design, some of it (green) borrowed from the net. tileset.png Wow That looks so nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckoBrand Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 A tileset for the F18A. Some of it my own design, some of it (green) borrowed from the net. tileset.png And you made this on Magellan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 And you made this on Magellan? Yes, Magellan has all the functionality required to create F18A graphics. Here is another, well known example of F18A graphics. However, getting these graphics onto the TI-99/4A requires assembly language until somebody writes a BASIC support library. mario-graphics-ecm2.mag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckoBrand Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 Yes, Magellan has all the functionality required to create F18A graphics. Here is another, well known example of F18A graphics. However, getting these graphics onto the TI-99/4A requires assembly language until somebody writes a BASIC support library. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 I think this tileset (standard 9918A VDP) looks nice, but I wonder what it could be used for? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chue Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Reminds me of Marble Madness or Crystal Castles. I've no idea if those could work on a TI though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Ooh, cool thread idea. Glad it got resurrected. In the spirit of it, here's the main background art associated with my current project, which is an RS-232 based game system control, selection and management system and launcher for my favourite systems, whose sprite/background graphics were designed principally in Magellan: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Those icons are pretty cool. "Someday", I don't know when, but I'm thinking there will eventually be a "Windows-Like" operating system that resides 100% in the FinalGROM that works with the F18A MK2. (Sure, maybe some data files might reside on DSK1 or in a TIPI subdirectory.) I dunno if it'll also exploit the SAMS card, but I'm thinking such a "Windows-Like" system will be the final evolution of our systems before all us TI'ers die off from old age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Yeah, I’d love to see more exploration of what GUIs designed even using standard mode 9918A assets might look like, taken to their most lavish extreme. And it does seem like a TIPI mouse is one inspiration towards exploring that. Since there’s not much excuse for exploring any complicated GUI designs if you’re just doing everything with key input anyway. Basically, I find my apparently perverse imagination asking “what does Microsoft Bob for the TI-99/4A look like?” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 22 minutes ago, pixelpedant said: Yeah, I’d love to see more exploration of what GUIs designed even using standard mode 9918A assets might look like, taken to their most lavish extreme. And it does seem like a TIPI mouse is one inspiration towards exploring that. Since there’s not much excuse for exploring any complicated GUI designs if you’re just doing everything with key input anyway. Basically, I find my apparently perverse imagination asking “what does Microsoft Bob for the TI-99/4A look like?” A decent GUI is like the "Holy Grail" in my TI book. Yes, many of us already use TIPI's, so mouse support........................................................ CHECK! Yes, many of us already use F18A's, so decent color graphic interface possible..... CHECK! Yes, many of us already use FG99's so a place to stick a large GUI program............ CHECK! I don't know how large a GUI would need to be, but the FG99 can support up to one megabyte programs. If it's setup anything like 4A/DOS or Force Command, it would return automatically to the GUI after exiting any program. I'm sure ICONS and other user specific data would be stored in a subdirectory on the RPi. I imagine a Windows 1.0 like environment could be possible. Right now we have a pretty cool DOS called Force Command by Jedimatt42, and that will probably remain my main environment until a decent GUI is delivered unto us by one of the TI Gods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 You understand Windows 1 was a total rip off of Macintosh OS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 36 minutes ago, RXB said: You understand Windows 1 was a total rip off of Macintosh OS? Who cares? It's at a level that could probably be "doable" on the TI, and it would not be the first time something similar was 'ported' to the TI. No one seems to care when it happens with a game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 DOWN with Windoze 1 and UP with GEM or GEOS! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 4 minutes ago, save2600 said: DOWN with Windoze 1 and UP with GEM or GEOS! ? Sure! Honestly any type of GUI would be nice, even a totally new design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 There is an OS thread in the development forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 On 12/3/2019 at 8:50 AM, Asmusr said: I think this tileset (standard 9918A VDP) looks nice, but I wonder what it could be used for? zaxxon? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 (edited) This tileset is re-using some of the ideas from the F18A tileset I posted about a year ago (e.g. the stairs), but it's now good old 9918A only. I'm considering if I want to use this for a new (scrolling - but not smoothly) platform game, or I want to try make another, perhaps ancient Egyptian, tileset. Hmm, perhaps both. Edited February 1, 2020 by Asmusr 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LASooner Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 (edited) I was just messing around with a 4th & Inches style of football game, the above is the full field set, below is what would be visible on a TI screen Edited February 1, 2020 by LASooner 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LASooner Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 (edited) Recreating Bruce Lee on the TI native mode, I have most of the levels complete, only the Boss Treasure room and the level before it are unfinished, these are a couple screens, with the exception of the title screen the other levels use the same character set with palette changes Edited February 1, 2020 by LASooner 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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