Rolling Thunder

[alexh]

Graffiti Man and Spaceport were coded by the same person

[saimon69]

Spaceport (hoo! hoo!)
One of the first games for my 500, being a fan of Fort Apocalypse that was mandatory!

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

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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Thunderboy was programmed by Rob/Quartex

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Thunderboy was programmed by Rob/Quartex

He definitely needed a (better) graphic artist there

[h0ffman]

Originally Posted by saimon69

He definitely needed a (better) graphic artist there

And a better sound designer!! That audio is soooo bad.

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by h0ffman

And a better sound designer!! That audio is soooo bad.

Did not want to mention -_- he did grab samples all around, in pure 1987 style

[saimon69]

btw started to grab samples and do soundtrack; due to the the game has sound effects and to the small RAM am using only three channel so will be similar but not 100% faithful but might be already too much for this port -_-

[saimon69]

Sent a test mod to mcGeezer via discord - does not include death sound because that is treated as sound effect hence have to rip it from MAME and not hoot

[Solid Snake]

Here is the arcade version. It runs fast. That's what makes it fun.
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I honestly believe this can be properly remade using the Scorpion engine.

[mcgeezer]

Maybe with a 68040 and 64mb fast ram a good port could be done.

[acidbottle]

Scorpion is very very good but most 1:1 arcade ports are still best attempted with proper code for accurate arcade timings! That said, earok has done a great job on gunsmoke up to now ..

[S. Campbell]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Sent a test mod to mcGeezer via discord - does not include death sound because that is treated as sound effect hence have to rip it from MAME and not hoot

Excellent, really looking forward to a build with sound.

[Anubis]

I don't remember ever playing Amiga version, only C64. Will try this and now I have to check speccy port.

[The Brave Ant]

I played the Rolling Thunder on an arcade machine on his time, was a difficult game and never passed the second stage, but was fun and a good video game.

I like the work of mcgeezer, thanks man!, great job with Asman.

[Amiga600]

There is no sound with this version - The original has sound

[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by Amiga600

There is no sound with this version - The original has sound

Technically yes, the original does have sound.

[Amiga600]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

Technically yes, the original does have sound.

Just curious why there is no sound - copyright issue or something else?

[saimon69]

Might be that something broke in the refactoring

[Asman]

Originally Posted by Amiga600

Just curious why there is no sound - copyright issue or something else?

The answer is simple. I commented all sound code. When I had worked on RT, the sound code didn't work on my a1200 030. Furthermore my knowledge about sound irq (at that time) was very limited.

Later when CFou! worked on whdload version of RT I helped him to resolve sound issue(s). So its mean that is possible to set sound to on (in far future).

[Amiga600]

Originally Posted by Asman

The answer is simple. I commented all sound code. When I had worked on RT, the sound code didn't work on my a1200 030. Furthermore my knowledge about sound irq (at that time) was very limited.

Later when CFou! worked on whdload version of RT I helped him to resolve sound issue(s). So its mean that is possible to set sound to on (in far future).

Ah ok thanks for the explanation, I actually thought it was a copyright issue, Thanks