Igor Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 We are celebrating Atari Lynx 30th Birthday and there are new games for all to play! Use this thread to leave comments and your thoughts about this game. Information here may be used for judging the final placement of this game in the programming competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinMos3 Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 I was really pleasantly surprised once I realized what this game was. (It wasn't obvious to me from the screenshot). It's a nice upgrade of a great classic. Unfortunately, it crashes soon into the game on my Lynx II when playing with the Saint SD cart. I've tried several times. First, it crashed on the title screen. For the next attempt, I quickly skipped past the title screen and got a little gameplay in before it crashed. I haven't been able to get it to work on my AgaCart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jum Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Still need to get it running properly on a real Lynx... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felyx Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 This is the VCS River Raid ported on Lynx. Funny but it crashes after the first minute on my Agacart as well. the file converted for me by Rafal is here if you want to run it on your Lynx: SkyRaider.lnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krip316 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) For the 5 seconds I was able to play it, it was good. I love this type of game. Unfortunately, the game crashes frequently. Edited September 4, 2019 by Krip316 added content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo Laser Lynx Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Really fun game as far as I tried it, good stuff! (I tried it on Handy, haven't had the time to test the games properly on real hardware yet). These kind of pick up and play simple games work really well on handhelds. I like the "old school" graphics too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Could it be that you just use uninitialized variables in the game? If you add a default value 0 to every variable in the code where you define them. Would it help the crashes? unsigned char var = 0; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jum Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Hi Karri, actually I just now found the cause of the crashes (after a LOT of SD card swapping :{ ? If I disable collisions, the game does not crash. I'm using the default TGI config with 2 draw buffers and collision buffer like so: // tgi locations of collision buffer (using -C lynx-coll.cfg in linker) #define COLLBUF 0xA058 #define BUFFER1 0xC038 #define BUFFER2 0xE018 So possibly the stack is getting overwritten (underwritten?)? IDK, maybe something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enthusi Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 I hope you manage to fix this. Will be nice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jum Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 (edited) Well I did finally manage to get the game running on my Lynx II with RetroHQ SD card. I blame TGI for messing up my fancy "dual layer SCB" system Game is very fast on the real Lynx (and a bit blurry!), but very slow in Handy... Here is the latest version: Sky Raider 20190906.zip Edited September 6, 2019 by jum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krip316 Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Works great now! It's fast, but controls are good. Looks nice and sharp on my McWill'd Lynx II. Love this type of game! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Impressive River Raid port for the Lynx! Was it a deliberate design decision to not move the shots with the player? (On both the VCS and Atari 8-bit, fired "missiles"/shots will move with the plane but here they don't, requiring different tactics. I found dying rather "unremarkable" in a literal sense. It takes a bit of time to notice you have lost a plane as there is no perceptible noise, etc. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinMos3 Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 On 9/18/2019 at 2:30 PM, slx said: Impressive River Raid port for the Lynx!.. I found dying rather "unremarkable" in a literal sense... I agree. Very nice game. The plane slowly crashing didn't bother me (although I agree that at first it feels like maybe you got away without dying until you see the plane slowly fall back), but the thing that stuck out to me was how the bridges blowing up doesn't give any special boom. It goes away like any other object. I think it would be a much more satisfying feeling (with more of a feeling of progressing) if the bridges had a big explosion and maybe a screen shake or flash. Otherwise, I don't have any criticisms. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimchipenguin Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 There are two flaws I found in this game compared to River Raid: a) shooting the fuel tank only awards ten points - it would improve the game mechanic (should I shoot for more points?) to increase it beyond the points awarded for destroying enemies b) You can't speed up or slow down the plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrS Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Hey Jum! So I sent you the videos of me and Tank playing it on Brian's upcoming android emulator. Lot of fun and hard! Petr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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