Rolling Thunder

[saimon69]

will do it on the spare of the spare time

[hayesmaker64]

Great work mcgeezer!

what are the best settings for this in winuae?!

[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by hayesmaker64

Great work mcgeezer!

what are the best settings for this in winuae?!

Thanks mate,

Just an A500 config with 0.5 mb of slow ram will do.

[jotd]

also a lot of post-its on the top of the screen to avoid thinking about Tiertex wasted 20% of the screen with useless title graphics.

[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by jotd

also a lot of post-its on the top of the screen to avoid thinking about Tiertex wasted 20% of the screen with useless title graphics.

This is why I said the game is a port from the ZX Spectrum. There's even evidence in the code that suggests they were working from the Z80 code template.

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To be fair, we havn't got to be too harsh because at the time of the release of Rolling Thunder not many games used the Amiga's BPLCON1 scrolling capability.

Rtype uses it, but not in the same way Apidya does... so time really does play a factor.

I'd be interested to debate which games the Amiga did do horizontal scrolling properly at the time of the release of RT.

[saimon69]

We can rename it Rolling Blunder
Am suprised the speccy version look decent ("look", then how it plays not sure)

By the way i remember in one of the Amiga stages - level 4 - there is an almost impossible jump, someone should edit the map, if not already done

[Havie]

Originally Posted by zzbylu

Gameplay: [ Show youtube player ]

And the original version for comparison:
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[thxtex]

Originally Posted by saimon69

By the way i remember in one of the Amiga stages - level 4 - there is an almost impossible jump...

Don't think I ever came past that jump.....

[ransom1122]

The jump is spoken about the description of the longplay

But the gameplay shows jumping without problems at the lava part

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[alexh]

Thanks for the hard work. Looks a LOT better than the original. But like @Galavad says this game needed hard fine scroll to do the game justice.

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

To be fair, we havn't got to be too harsh because at the time of the release of Rolling Thunder not many games used the Amiga's BPLCON1 scrolling capability. I'd be interested to debate which games the Amiga did do horizontal scrolling properly at the time of the release of RT.

Nothing jumps out on HOL for 1987. Menace in 1988?

[kremiso]

Originally Posted by alexh

...Nothing jumps out on HOL for 1987. Menace in 1988?

definitely scarce/zero results, horizontal scrolling talking
maybe Kikstart II?

[VincentGR]

I played on the real thing 030/50.

030 Fast
020 Fast
020 no cache playable
020 Relokick NoCache same as the above.

Looks great though.

[jotd]

Marble Madness has a good scrolling in 1986. Got to check if this was hardware scrolling. But it was vertical scrolling...

[Havie]

Is it possible to limit GPS so this is playable beyond an A500?

[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by Havie

Is it possible to limit GPS so this is playable beyond an A500?

Ehhh??

[alexh]

He means FPS

[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by alexh

He means FPS

Did he try the original game?

[Havie]

Originally Posted by Havie

Is it possible to limit GPS so this is playable beyond an A500?

Arghhh - phone fat fingers....

[Havie]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

Did he try the original game?

Obviously I have but plainly the original runs at virtually a single digit frame rate (whatever the system) but the updated version now runs at a much higher FPS and is not limited, so the faster the system, the faster the game which them makes it unplayable beyond an A500.

Hence my question about limiting FPS to perhaps 25 on every system so that everyone can enjoy your good work?

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

To be fair, we havn't got to be too harsh because at the time of the release of Rolling Thunder not many games used the Amiga's BPLCON1 scrolling capability.
Rtype uses it, but not in the same way Apidya does... so time really does play a factor.
I'd be interested to debate which games the Amiga did do horizontal scrolling properly at the time of the release of RT.

Was curious about this one, while drinking my morning coffee, so I looked in the Lemon Amiga by year 1987, and found these 3.

The first one (Graffiti Man), actually impressed me, with big characters, colorful BG, smooth animation, even tho I bet the gameplay is awful.
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Spaceport:
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Thunderboy:
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