Golf (Channel F)

[+atari2600land]

Hole #12 has been added. You start at it. Let me know if there's something wrong with it.

 

golf62.bin

[+atari2600land]

A sneak peek at hole #13.

It's actually kind of easy!

[+atari2600land]

Hole #13 added. Everything should be working okay. Let me know if it isn't.

 

golf64.bin

[e5frog]

I think it's working great, the out of bounds functionality make you hit it a bit more carefully. 

[+atari2600land]

Working on this some more. Here's a sneak peek:

[+atari2600land]

New version. A couple of new things are in here.

golf65.bin

[tschak909]

On 7/15/2019 at 12:38 PM, atari2600land said:

Working on this some more. Here's a sneak peek:

Ok, that is arguably the best bitmap graphic I've _EVER_ seen on a Channel F.

 

[tschak909]

What are you using for your dev environment btw?

-Thom

[+atari2600land]

Thanks, e5frog made the pic for me and I put it in the game using a bmp2blit program. I'm using dasm.

[+atari2600land]

Went back to the old way of controlling (hold fire for length of shot). Added an arrow to show the way the ball will go before you take a shot. Choose the way the ball goes with the joystick.

golf68.bin

[+atari2600land]

Which do you like better? I put the controls in version 69 to pre-version-68.

golf69.bin

[Mikebloke]

I'm going to give this a play test tonight and give my thoughts on the controls. 

[Mikebloke]

On 7/9/2019 at 6:55 AM, atari2600land said:

Where do I put the BIOS files?

EDIT: Never mind. Got it running.

How did you get it running under a new mess / mame setup? I've been trying for half an hour and I haven't got a clue how to get a game working on either of them.

[Mikebloke]

Nevermind, I worked out that if I downloaded regular mess from http://www.progettosnaps.net/mess/ and ensured the channelf cfg file was in the directory it just seemed to work if I loaded that first then selected the rom in the media folder.

 

I feel like the controller style in 68 is better if intended for a real channel f controller, I don't feel like on a PC keyboard there is much difference between the two, but holding the button down on a real controller will feel more comfortable.

Edited July 18, 2019 by Mikebloke

[+atari2600land]

Okay, I'll start from version 68 then. Thanks for your input.

[e5frog]

I also like the version 68 controls when using a real stick (have a Video Command stick in a USB joystick adapter hooked to the PC).  

 

[+atari2600land]

New version 70. Fixed some bugs.

golf70.bin

[e5frog]

Any decision about hole 14 yet?    

[+atari2600land]

We made a few changes. e5frog made the arrow color match the putting/not putting color and I made a 14th hole.

 

golf71a.bin

[e5frog]

On 7/17/2019 at 5:48 PM, tschak909 said:

Ok, that is arguably the best bitmap graphic I've _EVER_ seen on a Channel F.

 

I guess you haven't seen this one. 

 

[tschak909]

Holy shit!

 

[+atari2600land]

I was going to work on this game today, but noooo. Dumb computer decided it wants to update. It's been two hours now and I can't do anything on it because it's stuck at 27% completed.

[+atari2600land]

I made a 15th hole, but no more pictures or roms because I want at least something to be a surprise.

[+atari2600land]

I got back to work at this and made a 16th hole, so it's almost finished. I need to get back to work on this some more and just finish it. All I need to do is add 2 more holes.

[+atari2600land]

Update: 18 holes have been designed! I didn't think I could do it. I originally was going to have just 9. The game has at least 5,526 lines long, not include the graphics data and other stuff. So it's a big game, 8k. Just like Pac-Man.