ArtPazz - New game for AGA Amigas [WIP]

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by saimo

Released! Just go get it from https://www.retream.com/ArtPazz - it's free

Nice one, thank you kindly saimo

Edit: just downloaded and supported you:

[saimo]

WOW!!! That's a seriously generous donation
Thank you so much!

[nikosidis]

Originally Posted by saimo

Released! Just go get it from https://www.retream.com/ArtPazz - it's free

I downloaded now with a little support for you

Looking forward to try it out.

[saimo]

nikosidis, your generosity is much appreciated!
Enjoy!

[nikosidis]

Tried it now. I like it Good music. Nice rhythm changes in that tune.

[saimo]

I'm happy you noticed and liked that The tune is rather short (about 3 minutes before it loops), but I tried to make it very varied (always changing melody and bass line, many different drum patterns and, yes, a couple of rhythm changes).
BTW, when you're tired of it, don't forget that you can add your favourite modules, too

[torturedutopian]

Congrats ! Yet another very polished & unique game :-)

[nikosidis]

Originally Posted by saimo

I'm happy you noticed and liked that The tune is rather short (about 3 minutes before it loops), but I tried to make it very varied (always changing melody and bass line, many different drum patterns and, yes, a couple of rhythm changes).
BTW, when you're tired of it, don't forget that you can add your favourite modules, too

I added the Everyway module from Hoffman but it did not play correct. Seams like missing one channel or something. The same mod plays correct with EaglePlayer.
We have great fun with this game today. Me my daughter and a friend of her, 7 years
I added many pictures. We took 3 pictures at home we used and I took some pictures of movies etc. and converted them.
First I just downloaded them on my Linux laptop. Then FTP to my A1200/030. From there I used ImageFX to scale the images to 320x256 and PPaint to convert the images to 64 colors. Looks great I'm thinking of making a video of the progress. I tried to do this with GIMP but it was difficult and the result converting to 64 colours is nothing near of how PPaint do it
It is also nice to use PPaint for some small pixel corrections when needed after converting. Mostly it is not needed.

[saimo]

Originally Posted by torturedutopian

Congrats ! Yet another very polished & unique game :-)

Thank you
(To be honest, I don't see it that unique, though!)

[saimo]

Originally Posted by nikosidis

I added the Everyway module from Hoffman but it did not play correct. Seams like missing one channel or something. The same mod plays correct with EaglePlayer.

Yes, that can happen: it's due to the AMOS Professional replay routine, which is not as good as those that followed.

We have great fun with this game today. Me my daughter and a friend of her, 7 years

Hearing that kids have fun with my game really makes me happy!!! (In fact, I have suggested the same idea to some other friends.) Thanks for sharing.

I added many pictures. We took 3 pictures at home we used and I took some pictures of movies etc. and converted them.
First I just downloaded them on my Linux laptop. Then FTP to my A1200/030. From there I used ImageFX to scale the images to 320x256 and PPaint to convert the images to 64 colors. Looks great I'm thinking of making a video of the progress. I tried to do this with GIMP but it was difficult and the result converting to 64 colours is nothing near of how PPaint do it

Very nice to hear this, too!

It is also nice to use PPaint for some small pixel corrections when needed after converting. Mostly it is not needed.

For the record, I use PP a lot, too.

[zzbylu]

and small gameplay: [ Show youtube player ]

[saimo]

Thank you!

[saimo]

@admins


Could you change the thread title to "ArtPazz - new game for AGA Amigas [released]", please? Thanks in advance.

[saimo]

Working on Follix inspired me some changes also for its brother ArtPazz. While waiting for Follix to be released, enjoy this updated version of ArtPazz!

v1.1 (09.07.2021)
· Changed keyboard handling so that the system keyboard speed is not altered after quitting the game.
· Improved font handling.
· Recompiled against ALS v2.0.
· Touched up music (in particular, removed the A#3 and B3 notes crackling, and lots of pops).
· Improved icons.
· Revised manual.

[saimo]

Just released a new version of ArtPazz - it's "just" a minor maintenance release, but, still, go grab it from https://www.retream.com/ArtPazz

v1.2 (18.07.2021)
* Fixed writes to POTGO: OUTLX and DATLX were set instead of OUTLY and DATLY; POTGO is now managed properly by means of potgo.resource.
* Fixed bug that could cause a graphical glitch in the menus.
* Made a tiny optimization.
* Made minor changes to the directories/files tree.
* Improved manual.

[saimo]

A quick heads-up to let you know that I released a couple of littles updates.

v1.4 (20.02.2023)
* Changed the conditions of many If, Until and While statements and turned For ... Next loops into Repeat ... Until loops to have the AMOS Professional Compiler produce shorter and faster code.
* Recompiled against ALS v2.3.

v1.3 (19.02.2023)
* Fixed endless floppy drive motor spinning
* Recompiled against ALS v2.2.
* Optimized executable with custom tool.
* Touched up manual.

https://www.retream.com/ArtPazz
https://retream.itch.io/artpazz

[malko]

Thank you saimo !

[saimo]

New version of ArtPazz released. It benefits from the recent improvements to ALS and to the AMOS executables optimizer originally developed for Ring around the World.

v1.7 (18.03.2023)
* Fixed 'I' and ']' of big font.
* Removed involuntary dependency on AMCAF (the cleanup code included an Open Workbench command).
* Saved some memory by tweaking the AMOS Professional Interpreter configuration.
* Recompiled against ALS v2.4 (which eliminates the dependency on mathtrans.library).
* Reprocessed executable with improved optimizer tool that optimizes also Exit If ... and While ... Wend.
* Embedded version string in executable.

v1.6 (02.03.2023)
* Fixed 24 bytes memory leak due to the AMOS function Dir First$() by replacing it (and Dir Next$()) with direct calls to dos.library.
* Fixed 24 bytes memory leak due to the new font handling code.

v1.5 (28.02.2023)
* Changed font handling so that diskfont.library is no longer needed.
* Made minimal changes to the startup and cleanup code.

[saimo]

Just released a minor update.

https://retream.itch.io/artpazz

v1.8 (07.06.2023)
* Recompiled against ALS v2.5.
* Reprocessed executable with improved optimizer tool that optimizes also multiplications and divisions of variables by powers of 2.