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26 July 2021, 17:47 | #142 |
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I... don't really understand why you post that as a response to the quoted text.
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13 August 2021, 08:46 | #143 |
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On my A1200 with Blizzard1230 (68030/32MB) the dev version 2 works quite well
I've got 2 finetuning hints for you for the physics/gravity though: The player is jumping slightly too high und is falling too fast. E.g. in Level 1-1 the plattform left of the waterfall "bridge" section should NOT be reachable by a jump (green = original game, red = T2AGA) And in Level 1-2 on the far right side of the level the player is falling too fast (red). The plattform above the staues hand should be reachable by pulling the joystick to the right constantly while falling down (green) But over all: You're doing a great job here! Thanks for your efford. I can't wait to play the next dev version and the finished game once it's done. |
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Thanks for the feedback. I had noticed the second example where you can't reach the top of the 'statues' hands although I wasn't 100% sure whether there are differences in the PC-DOS version here. Sometimes it is hard to compare, there is no trainer for the DOS version, so you can't easily skip levels to test things, also the only full play-through on YouTube was recorded in a way that felt more like a speed-run. They demolish enemies before you can even observe their behaviour. You can still climb that statue by jumping up the winder by the way. There are other parts I've found where they changed the map between the AMIGA/PC versions in such a way that it would be impossible to get through, I had to really reduce the collision area of the hero to stop him getting stuck. |
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28 August 2021, 08:16 | #145 |
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So I've skipped world 2 for now and have the first level of world 3 working. This is the first spaceship level.
There have been some negative comments about the look of these levels on the MS-DOS version. Personally I think the enemies and foreground look good, but background parallax layer is ugly. The colour scheme is drab and the images uninteresting. I have a perfect copy of the PC-DOS version working on the Amiga, but I thought I'd play with some colours to see if the background could look better. I'm not an artist, so I haven't changed any of the image data, just the palette. In an ideal world the images would be improved too. Anyway, here are screenshots of: A) Original Amiga version B) PC-DOS version C) My AGA version with the palette changed to be closer to the Amiga. Any thoughts if it is better or worse? |
28 August 2021, 10:56 | #146 |
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Use the new palette while keeping the space ship of the original Amiga version!
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28 August 2021, 11:21 | #147 |
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Like it!
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28 August 2021, 12:34 | #148 |
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I like both versions, definitely would love to see something between amiga/pc version.
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28 August 2021, 14:10 | #149 |
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That palette fix is great. that’s the sort of minor change I don’t mind at all, it still feels like an accurate port of the pc version just “correcting” a very silly minor detail.
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28 August 2021, 16:03 | #150 |
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Palette fix is great !
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28 August 2021, 18:17 | #151 |
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I prefer the B ( original PC-MSDOS ) because it seems more adapted.
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28 August 2021, 18:19 | #152 |
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B as the title says, dos port.
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28 August 2021, 21:54 | #153 |
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28 August 2021, 22:22 | #154 |
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Judging on a single screenshot like this is not easy if you never have played the PC version.
Therefore I vote for 'B' to keep original PC colours. |
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I've uploaded builds of both versions (the zip file contains two ADFs) both to the Zone and to dropbox. Now you can see them in motion.
Some of the enemy behaviour still needs work, and the player still can't take damage, but it is mostly feature complete. These builds contain this single spaceship level only. I don't feel any requirement to be 100% faithful to the MS-DOS version, especially in areas where the Amiga could do better. But I am conflicted between feeling that the original grey version fits the overall style better, versus the blue version just looking more vibrant, and standing out more against the foreground. A good artist could probably pick a colour scheme and redo the background sprites to be a big improvement over both versions. This level actually uses a lot less colours than the first world so I'm running in 7 bitplanes instead of 8. The good thing about this is that the reduced blitter pressure compensates for the added cost of the parallax. But even with 7 bitplanes, there are 27 colours unused for enemies/foreground, and the parallax layer uses 15 very similar colours (lots of dark greys), so like I say, lots of room for improvement. EDIT: One thing I forgot is that I was planning to make the red center line pulse in the 'blue version'. I just haven't done it yet. Last edited by Muzza; 29 August 2021 at 03:14. |
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Something I thought was interesting is that I took a look at the original Amiga versions handling of the parallax on this level. Now, I'm not a forensic expert at using WinUAE, but it looked to me like they are not using either Sprites or Dual Playfield.
The foreground uses 4 bitplanes/16 colours, and the background parallax only appears in bitplanes 1 and 3 so is 4 colour (plus copper colour changes). I would guess this means that sections of the foreground or background have to be redrawn every frame (but only in 2 bitplanes). |
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Despite I prefer the blue one, the grey background matches better with the grey foreground. To my eyes, things seem less flat on the foreground (with the grey one).
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29 August 2021, 08:00 | #158 |
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Both versions are nice, but I prefer the B pc-dos style too or do it in both ways and then make it user switchable if it doesn't take much time.
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29 August 2021, 09:33 | #159 |
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I prefer the grey one, although both are good. And more importantly, the whole thing plays butter smooth! I have my fingers crossed for a finished product here, pls keep it up
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29 August 2021, 10:22 | #160 |
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World3 - small gameplay (blue/grey):
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