Atomic Joe Blade

[oss003]

Hi guys,

I just want to announce another new Acorn Atom conversion ..........

----====[ JOE BLADE!! ]====----

The original Acorn Electron version is converted for the Atom. This game has great graphics, 128 screens and 6 puzzles to solve. It's a nice little game.

I'll upload it soon to the RetroSoftware site, as soon as Samwise added a page ....
You can already preview the video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF20Lc778Lo

Greetings
Kees

[hoglet]

Hi Kees,

I was wonder what you were up to as you have been so quiet recently.

Dave

[oss003]

Hi Kees,

I was wonder what you were up to as you have been so quiet recently.

Dave

Yep, this proves I'm a real man ........ I can't do 2 things at the same time

Greetings
Kees

[oss003]

Can anyone confirm if the Youtube video is ok?

Sometimes when I call Youtube, it's blurry and sometimes it's ok??
Anyone knows why?

It is an AVI file.

Greetings
Kees

[Prime]

Can anyone confirm if the Youtube video is ok?

Sometimes when I call Youtube, it's blurry and sometimes it's ok??
Anyone knows why?

Looks fine to me Kees, running on Windows 7 & Firefox 26.0.

Cheers.

Phill.

[CMcDougall]

Great work again Kees

PS the Atom master tapes are in the post to DaveM
PPS that means I have to make another

[jms2]

Awesome work as ever Kees, well done!

[Multiwizard]

Looks great Kees, nice job , can´t wait to play it on my real Atom...

[Dave Footitt]

Great stuff Kees

[danielj]

Can anyone confirm if the Youtube video is ok?

Sometimes when I call Youtube, it's blurry and sometimes it's ok??
Anyone knows why?

Looks fine to me too - it's probably your bandwidth on your internet connection.


d.

[sPhilMainwaring]

Hi Kees

I'm not familiar with this game but it looks good

As always very impressive

Would you say that Atomic Elite (Phase 8 ) means that it is all done or are there still things to do / niggles?

Greetings

Phil

[oss003]

Hi Phil,

ok, you got me ..... you spotted my weak point ....... finishing things

The biggest (and only) thing to do is adding sound.
I did a little bit of testing a while ago but that didn't work and I stopped working on it. Have to pick it up sometime and finish it

Greetings
Kees

[sPhilMainwaring]

Hi Kees

I wouldn't think finishing things is your weak spot at all ... but then again I have things still unfinished after 20 plus years :/

The reason I asked was that it looks perfect in the phase 8 video ... I had noticed there was no sound but just assumed you didn't have sound "mic-ed up" for the YouTube video although I should have realised as the SID tune can be heard at the start of the video

Is there a tiny bit of space left for sound ... I seem to remember you have an interrupt / via driven sound in Atomic Chuckie Egg ?

I'll be meeting Sophie Wilson at Bletchley Park next week (Thursday) ... I'll have to ask her if she knows about / show her Atomic Chuckie Egg and Atomic Elite on the laptop

Greetings

Phil

[oss003]

Is there a tiny bit of space left for sound ... I seem to remember you have an interrupt / via driven sound in Atomic Chuckie Egg ?

Tiny bit of space ...... there's about 6 kB of RAM left. You're talking about The Atom, you know!!

I'll be meeting Sophie Wilson at Bletchley Park next week (Thursday) ... I'll have to ask her if she knows about / show her Atomic Chuckie Egg and Atomic Elite on the laptop

That would be nice, I did also send some mails to David Braben to have a look at the Youtube video's just out of curiousity but I did not get any respons

Greetings
Kees

[sPhilMainwaring]

Tiny bit of space ...... there's about 6 kB of RAM left. You're talking about The Atom, you know!!

Yes ... but I meant the system RAM, not the screen RAM :p

[oss003]

Yes ... but I meant the system RAM, not the screen RAM :p

Me too .....

Greetings
Kees

[GroovyBee]

Cool! Looks good!

[oss003]

Hi guys,

Added joystick support and shortened the guard die-time by 3/4.

I found the C64 version which has SID music and FX sounds.
I'll have a look to see if I can implement the SID music/FX sounds.

Greetings
Kees

[hoglet]

Just been playing this instead of getting ready to go to work

At 2x speed it's really awesome!

Here's a link to a map, which looks identical to the electron version:
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... lade_2.png

Well done Kees for an amazing conversion.

Dave

[TheCorfiot]

That is an amazing piece of work.

Nice one Kees

[CMcDougall]

Hi Kees,

Just wondered if you have made a .Wave of this yet? as I don't think I can make it myself on my Atom, as mine has 28k, as 4k missing for the space for the Disc Pack/DOS rom.
Then can get this onto a actual tape for more RetroSoft titles..... (why did I say yes to this )

Cheers, Col.

[oss003]

Hi Kees,

Just wondered if you have made a .Wave of this yet? as I don't think I can make it myself on my Atom, as mine has 28k, as 4k missing for the space for the Disc Pack/DOS rom.
Then can get this onto a actual tape for more RetroSoft titles..... (why did I say yes to this )

Cheers, Col.

Hi Colin,

Not yet, but I'll make the usual .DSK, .TAP, .WAV, .CSW and .UEF images and upload them to the RetroSoftware site as soon as the Joe Blade page is available ....

Greetings
Kees

[oss003]

Hi guys,

The Joe Blade page is finished at the Retrosoftware site (with download):

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/index.php/JoeBlade

Greetings
Kees