Trojan arcade Amiga port

[Evillord68]

Good job, it looks very good.

[Havie]

Looks great. I remember doing a bit of a Trojan on my Speccy (animated guy and scrolling background) but have never played it and worked from a screen shot in C+VG.

Really looking forward to this.

[skyzoo73]

I'm having a little trouble implementing fonts in the game. Assuming that more than one is needed, a standard one, a yellow one, another for the scores. The problem is that I get a space between one letter and another, and for highscore names they become too wide. I'm missing something in the process.
I took the default font as a reference, and replaced it with the one from the game, the characters are 8x8 px.

[skyzoo73]

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by skyzoo73

I'm having a little trouble implementing fonts in the game. Assuming that more than one is needed, a standard one, a yellow one, another for the scores. The problem is that I get a space between one letter and another, and for highscore names they become too wide. I'm missing something in the process.
I took the default font as a reference, and replaced it with the one from the game, the characters are 8x8 px.

I have the 8x8 letters font. Please show me the screen and palette, and i send those to you

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by skyzoo73

Attachment 77481


Attachment 77482

there you go : https://we.tl/t-rplCyoXjtA

[skyzoo73]

Thank you
but I had already grabbed the fonts from the mame, the problem is that even selecting "monospaced" they still result with the space once printed on the screen as elements in a panel. Which is strange, given that another font that says "ranking best 7" are displayed as they should without spaces, and are set the same as the other fonts.


I correct myself: even the fonts of the writing "ranking" best 7" if set as an element on the panel result in a space between the characters...

[demoniac]

When I messed with Japanese fonts, some of them used 2 bytes for each English character. Maybe you are seeing a similar behavior?

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by skyzoo73

Thank you
but I had already grabbed the fonts from the mame, the problem is that even selecting "monospaced" they still result with the space once printed on the screen as elements in a panel. Which is strange, given that another font that says "ranking best 7" are displayed as they should without spaces, and are set the same as the other fonts.


I correct myself: even the fonts of the writing "ranking" best 7" if set as an element on the panel result in a space between the characters...

Ask to Eric Hogan a hint on that. It's like it operates on 16x16 instead of 8x8 pixels.

[Mixel]

Originally Posted by skyzoo73

Thank you
but I had already grabbed the fonts from the mame, the problem is that even selecting "monospaced" they still result with the space once printed on the screen as elements in a panel. Which is strange, given that another font that says "ranking best 7" are displayed as they should without spaces, and are set the same as the other fonts.


I correct myself: even the fonts of the writing "ranking" best 7" if set as an element on the panel result in a space between the characters...

I think you may get it to work by manually setting the space width and line height for the fonts?

Here's one of my examples -

[skyzoo73]

Originally Posted by Mixel

I think you may get it to work by manually setting the space width and line height for the fonts?

Here's one of my examples -Attachment 77496

I'll try to do this again, even if I feel like I've already tried it...

[skyzoo73]

Houston we have a problem !

Space Width & Line Height are missing

[Mixel]

Originally Posted by skyzoo73

Attachment 77497

Houston we have a problem !

Space Width & Line Height are missing

Haha whaaaat? It was in the earlier screenshot you posted, that's really odd. Do you have multiple copies of scorpion installed or something? (it'd have to be a pretty old one for that to have disappeared though I think, I'm totally clutching at straws!)

[skyzoo73]

No should be the latest experimental

2022.8

I just tried again to download the latest experimental, but it is still the 2022.8 one, I opened the project for a moment the fields in the fonts appeared, then they disappeared as before.

[skyzoo73]

Fixed the fonts bug, made some progress on the highscore table...

[skyzoo73]

Small update: The project is moving forward, in small steps.

Title screen done

-There is the demonstration ( the slasher throws a knife, then an orb, the player parries the knife and when he tries to parry the orb his sword and shield are taken away, he takes it back and parries again)
- there is the "insert coin" screen
- there is the "highscores" screen ( although it doesn't work yet)
- the player moves, dies, jumps, attacks and parries with the shield. Hit by the slasher ball he loses shield and sword as in the game.

pre_level1 working with related music

level 1:

the assets are all there, including sounds
- parallax background
- level 1 music
- enemy slasher ( 90% working)
- enemy smasher
- enemy manhole archer ( 90% working)
- enemy dynamite guy ( correctly throws dynamite stick and explodes)
- enemy mid boss (mamushi) (spawns correctly, dies correctly, AI not yet implemented)
- enemy lv1 finalboss (ironarm) spaw by breaking wall, not yet implemented, dies correctly, AI -not implemented )


pre_level2 working with music ( *in the future if I can, I would like to add the text of the points earned during the level just finished )

Level 2:

assets are partial, no music for now
- parallax backdrop
- enemy archer ( the ones popping up on top of the rocks ) graphic assets complete, AI not implemeted
- enemy mid boss ( armadillon ) partial assets ( rolling mode ) , to be finished
- enemy lv2 final boss some graphic assets and nothing else

[vulture]

nice progress!

[jurassicman]

great job!

[CFou!]

great!

[Reynolds]

Just a question, but could be the visible area wider than in the original? Just to fill out better the available space on the screen...