Decided to release an old game

[jayminer]

Originally Posted by Etze

May I ask how you did this with Amos?

Well, AMOS has the ability to open libraries so I basically just opened and used nonvolatile.library. It wasn't very hard to do and I could post some example code if you're interested?

[Etze]

oh, yes. That would be great. I'm writing a game right now and already thought about a CD32 Version. Not sure though if it will ever be finished and released...

[jayminer]

Okay, here's my first quick and dirty test to save in NVRAM, I couldn't find a good way to copy/paste directly from AMOS - AMOS doesn't seem to use Workbench clipboard and I didn't find a "Save ASCII"-option (which I thought existed) so I typed it in manually, hope I didn't screw anything up:

Reserve As Work 10, 200

MEMBANK=Start(10)
Poke$ MEMBANK,"AppNm"
Poke MEMBANK+5,0
Poke$ MEMBANK+6,"ItemN"
Poke MEMBANK+11,0
Poke$ MEMBANK+12,"TestingNVRAMSave!!"

Areg(0)=MEMBANK
Areg(1)=MEMBANK+6
Areg(2)=MEMBANK+12
Dreg(0)=2
Dreg(1)=True

Lib Open 1,"nonvolatile.library",0
LIB=Lib Call(1,-42)
Lib Close 1

Print LIB

A little explanation (from what I remember, I wrote this in 2011 or 2012 so it's all a bit hazy, but the first thing to do is just to reserve some memory (as a bank) to write the data to be saved into NVRAM into, then I poke in the string for Application Name and Item Name and the string to be saved into memory and set the adress to these strings (Null-terminated) into the adress-registers, I can't exactly remember what the Data registers was for but this can be checked by looking at the documentation for nonvolatile.library.

Then just open the library with Lib Open, Call it at offset -42 (I'm guessing that's StoreNVRAM) and close the library, the final Print LIB prints the return code from the library call so if something went wrong you get some sort of information about what.

[Etze]

Thank you very much! I will try it in the near future.

[Hacky]

Nice game.

[rothers]

I love to see AMOS still being used, it brings back warm fuzzy memories of programming after school.

I still have the giant AMOS pro manual.

I do wonder if it would be feasible to write an AMOS interpreter in HTML5...

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by rothers

I love to see AMOS still being used, it brings back warm fuzzy memories of programming after school.

I still have the giant AMOS pro manual.

I do wonder if it would be feasible to write an AMOS interpreter in HTML5...

Francøis Lionet is working on a JavaScript version now.

[Leon]

Hi! By accident I discovered this game now. The engine from this game would be perfect for the Insidia game port. How can I contact the author of the game? Thanks

[jayminer]

Hi! You can PM me here

[xboxown]

Hey Jayminer is it possible you can write a full construction set for the game so people can build their own levels and share it with other people and play other people's level? Like if I want to build 100 levels, then I can compile it and make even password so no one can edit it...and then distribute my module with other people so they can play my levels and I can play theirs?

Like.....(repeats the same thing over and over and over....)

[DamienD]

Wow, cool game

...and yet another thread that I missed when AWOL for 6 years

Anyway, have downloaded TheGame0.95.lha & TheGame_095_CD32.zip but neither have the title screen shown below; only writing?

Originally Posted by jayminer

New titlescreen! Not much left to fix now...!

Do you possibly still have the new "data/titlescreen.data" file that you could use in say a new "v0.96" set of archives; which also contain the fixes you've mentioned in the thread after the "v0.95" release?

[DamienD]

Heya jayminer,

I'm sure you've read my post above by now... not possible or?

Adding the above would be appreciated and maybe even finish this game as it's quite cool, shame not too

[jayminer]

Hi, I have been meaning to dig out my latest code, and updating the game to use the very last version I worked on, still not 100% complete though, a few rough edges but playable all the way through.

Haven't really gotten around to it yet, mostly due to me being lazy and forgetful. I am going to be releasing the code for free aswell so that everyone can do whatever they want with it, since I don't have any plans at the moment to do anything more with this myself!

[Dan]

Hello

Originally Posted by jayminer

I couldn't find a good way to copy/paste directly from AMOS - AMOS doesn't seem to use Workbench clipboard and I didn't find a "Save ASCII"-option (which I thought existed)

Amos Pro does have an export to ascii, but you'll have to select a block, to store it and then to save it as ascii.

All this is under the Block menue.

[jayminer]

Just a minor update, I'm not sure if there ever will be an update to this, since I can't seem to find the latest version of my code. Sloppy of me I know, but I could only find somewhat older versions on various harddrives, not the latest one I worked on.

[DamienD]

Not good news; that's a real shame

Is it possible to at least somehow insert the cool title screen into v0.95 though?

[jayminer]

I'll look into it

[DamienD]

Coolio

[Shatterhand]

Has anyone made an ADF of this?

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Shatterhand

Has anyone made an ADF of this?

I have

Take a look in The Zone!

...as it works better on an A1200, but ok on an A500, the disk is for an A1200 and copies everything to RAM in order to speed up loading between screens (as suggested by jayminer in the "ReadMe"):

Originally Posted by jayminer

The reason development sort of died of was in part by there being an odd bug that I have only ever seen on my A1200 when I disabled my Blizzard 1230 and ran as an unexpanded A1200. There are some minor flickering on one of the sprites and I have no idea why, and never managed to fix this bug. It doesn't occur on any other machine I have tried it on. Another thing was that it runs a bit slow on a 68000 machine, and I really tried to keep the system requirements down since I wanted it to run on a A500 but unfortunately it runs a bit slow in most rooms.

Actually, I also created a "non-RAM" disk... in The Zone! also

...but requires KS 2.x to work on an A500 (game limitation unfortunately).

Originally Posted by DamienD

Not good news; that's a real shame

Is it possible to at least somehow insert the cool title screen into v0.95 though?

Originally Posted by jayminer

I'll look into it

I know jayminer can't seem to find the latest v0.97 of his code

I'd still love the above title screen added to v0.95 though if possible