[WIP] Galaxian conversion

[jotd]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Nah, if i remember the most of chaos on the screen, Galaga is perfectly doable - colors wise - in OCS/ECS dual playfield if you decide to use bobs, hence has to be coded almost from scratch

When I see your version I'll agree

[saimon69]

with my coding skills - or lack thereof, 2200 AD seems a valid date to show something -_-

[jotd]

Much better video of the current version.

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[nikosidis]

jotd: Looking great! Will there be 2-player?

[Pyromania]

Great conversion, nice work, thanks a ton! I used to love playing this in the arcade in the 1980s. It would be awesome if Sinistar or Gyruss was done next.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by jotd

Much better video of the current version.

[ Show youtube player ]

Looks pretty good The YT compression isn't great though. Maybe upload the next one in 720p?

[jotd]

Originally Posted by nikosidis

jotd: Looking great! Will there be 2-player?

Yes, turn-based like the arcade. BTW I forgot to map the key to start a 2 player mode in Xevious too, so I'll publish a new version with that soon.

Originally Posted by Pyromania

Great conversion, nice work, thanks ton! I used to love playing this in the arcade in the 1980s. It would be awesome if Sinistar or Gyruss was done next.

I love Gyruss but I'm not going to do it. Too ambitious. You may get Pengo & Donkey Kong instead

Originally Posted by TCD

Looks pretty good The YT compression isn't great though. Maybe upload the next one in 720p?

First, the stars use multiplexed sprites and are buggy, then since my lagarith codec has wrong colors (it used to work, I don't know why it does that), I'm using other lousy codecs and use to post crappy vids...

[acidbottle]

Firstly, thank you for bringing these classics to Amiga, long long overdue these kinds of ports and love them all! If you make Galaxian Turbo an option it would be very sweet

For YT vids I rip from WinUAE using the techsmith codec, seems solid to me but everyone's mileage varies with software tech!

[TCD]

Originally Posted by jotd

First, the stars use multiplexed sprites and are buggy, then since my lagarith codec has wrong colors (it used to work, I don't know why it does that), I'm using other lousy codecs and use to post crappy vids...

No worries then The game is fine, so don't worry about the YT teaser

[pink^abyss]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Nah, if i remember the most of chaos on the screen, Galaga is perfectly doable - colors wise - in OCS/ECS dual playfield if you decide to use bobs, hence has to be coded almost from scratch

I also think OCS would be fine for a near perfect Galaga port.
I would not use dual playfield but rather 4 planes and Sprites for player ship and all bullets. Perhaps I could patch it all into Tiny Galaga

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by pink^abyss

I also think OCS would be fine for a near perfect Galaga port.
I would not use dual playfield but rather 4 planes and Sprites for player ship and all bullets. Perhaps I could patch it all into Tiny Galaga

[disregard, i did not read properly]
Thumbs up!
(actually with 16 colors i suppose even Gaplus might be an option) - or Cosmo Gang, that i love

[jotd]

For Galaga, that makes a lot of BOBs to draw. A lot of BOBs, even small, isn't optimal for Amiga.

Galaga = Xevious hardware, quite powerful.

Galaxian: older hardware, much less objects moving on screen.

I don't know if 1;1 Galaga would run properly on A500. I may be not skilled enough in amiga hardware coding, specially blitter stuff. After all I started coding games less than 2 years ago. Let's see your attempts

[nikosidis]

Originally Posted by jotd

Yes, turn-based like the arcade. BTW I forgot to map the key to start a 2 player mode in Xevious too, so I'll publish a new version with that soon.

Sweeeeet


These classic games are so fun to play when a friend come over. HiScore challenge

[pink^abyss]

Originally Posted by jotd

For Galaga, that makes a lot of BOBs to draw. A lot of BOBs, even small, isn't optimal for Amiga.

Galaga = Xevious hardware, quite powerful.

Galaxian: older hardware, much less objects moving on screen.

I don't know if 1;1 Galaga would run properly on A500. I may be not skilled enough in amiga hardware coding, specially blitter stuff. After all I started coding games less than 2 years ago. Let's see your attempts

You are right. Galaga has really a lot of Bobs to draw, but its possible as Galaga needs no restore blits. A good approach for such single screen games are copper blits (my attempt was Tiny Bubble ).
Anyway all the best for your project!

[jotd]

Copper blits. I had forgotten that. Is there some technical detail about this and why it's fast?

[jotd]

beta game is online at https://jotd666.itch.io/galaxian500

- Reward if someone can find why (when) a "B" is displayed on screen sometimes (rare) or we get 4 lives
- An icon would be nice too

[TCD]

Originally Posted by jotd

beta game is online at https://jotd666.itch.io/galaxian500

Great I'll give it a try tomorrow

[mrv2k]

I've made a quick boxart image.

[mrv2k]

Here's a couple of icons.

[S. Campbell]

Originally Posted by jotd

I love Gyruss but I'm not going to do it. Too ambitious. You may get Pengo & Donkey Kong instead

Woohoo!