First bit of code

[Hurray Banana]

My first working (lame) effort on pacman hardware.

still incredibly rusty with z80, but starting to think at a low level again, learned a few bits here but more to come.

Not that impressive, but using a sine wave lookup table generated using a bit of c# code, vid is jerky because of camstudio.

 

[backflipper]

Nice work mate!

I'm glad this is still alive!

 

[Alpha1]

Nice work

 

[ben76]

Did Jim Bagley ever manage to sign up? He would be a vreat addition to you clever basts

- Ben

 

[cmonkey]

Well done Eric

It's nice to think that I'm not the ONLY person coding for arcade hardware!

 

[Hurray Banana]

Well done Eric

It's nice to think that I'm not the ONLY person coding for arcade hardware!

Thanks everyone, it is rather pathetic, but I've only spent about 30 minutes so far on this. My next task is to mess about with the Tiles in interesting ways to generate something a little more impressive, but time is a major problem at the moment, with heavy stuff going down at work

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My ambitions are outstripping my memory of assembler at the minute, but it is slowly coming back.

Once I'm a little less rusty I'll move onto some slightly better hardware, 8 16x16 3 colour sprites doesn't leave much scope for jazzy showing off.

 

[Hurray Banana]

Just finished hacking some code together to write a custom sprite to the pacman.5f sprite rom.

As is normal for me, couldn't think of anything to draw, recorded this with fraps to try and get a smoother capture, watch the 480p60Hz version

Now I need to create a full sprite sheet tiler and the same for the rather more simple tile roms and I should be able to have a go at something a little better.

Was gonna attempt a version of space launcher but that will have to involve a bit of trickery with tiles as I think the original has a pixel based video buffer.

Might do some sinewave scroller exercises first.

 

[cmonkey]

Space Launcher does indeed use a pixel based frame buffer, as do all the 8080 based Ninty games.

I found myself in a similar situation to you when I was putting the L System tech demo together in that I too couldn't think of anything to draw! I'm a good coder, but a useless creative artist!

Looking good anyway Eric.

Your next task, should you choose to accept it, is to get all 8 sprites on screen at once with a few tiles thrown onto the background to liven things up a little. Should be no problem for a man of your calibre.

 

[Hurray Banana]

Yeah gonna do something stupid next. watch this space