Post by: Halifax on February 16, 2007, 08:27:00 pm
Post by: bfr on February 17, 2007, 09:15:00 am
Anyway, Galactic 68K alpha 1 is released. Here is the download link: http://bfr.tifreakware.net/galactic.zip
There are five bug-free (from what I've tested) levels so far. More levels, including a final boss, need to be finished, and I'll probably add more backgrounds and sprites, but note that sophisicated backgrounds make the game slower. As the levels go on, the AI will become more intelligent. (...in case it doesn't look that intelligent now. It actually isn't too bad, but at the moment, it doesn't try to dodge bullets. That will come in later levels.)
I don't have a readme yet, so here are the controls:
2ND = shoot, arrow keys=move (pretty typical)
In some menus and things, when the program is waiting for a key press, 2ND won't work (this is often due to using ngetchx() which doesn't support the 2ND key alone), so you should just press ENTER (or another key).
EDIT: There are now eight levels, except I haven't released this new version yet
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 17, 2007, 03:06:00 pm
Does it only take one hit to kill the enemy or does it have health?
Post by: bfr on February 17, 2007, 04:54:00 pm
Post by: bfr on February 17, 2007, 05:50:00 pm
http://bfr.tifreakware.net/galactic.zip
This contains ten action-packed levels fightings against increasingly difficult AI ships, with a shop that appears every so often, and a final eleventh level containing a powerful boss. Enjoy!
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 17, 2007, 06:46:00 pm
Post by: bfr on February 18, 2007, 05:10:00 am
Well, it's actually good that you didn't have your calculator at that moment. After playing it excessively, I eventually realized that it sucked up a bunch of my calculator's memory - I allocated a whole bunch of memory (four times the size of the TI-89's 160x100 LCD), and only freed half of it. I'll try to get a new version up soon.
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 06:03:00 am
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Post by: bfr on February 18, 2007, 04:43:00 pm
I would have finished it earlier today, but I had to go to my sister's swim meet and then to my cousin's house.
It can still be downloaded at http://bfr.tifreakware.net/galactic.zip
Enjoy! :)
Post by: graywolf on February 18, 2007, 06:04:00 pm
Post by: lachprog on February 19, 2007, 07:41:00 am
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In some menus and things, when the program is waiting for a key press, 2ND won't work (this is often due to using ngetchx() which doesn't support the 2ND key alone), so you should just press ENTER (or another key). |
This can be fixed by using _keytest() or _keytest_optimized() instead of ngetchx() . If you want to do that you also need to redirect a couple of interupt handlers. (I can post some code if you're interested... )
Post by: bfr on February 19, 2007, 10:37:00 am
, but....I did exactly what you said for Catch That Ship (and used a while() loop + keytest() thing instead of ngetchx()), but ngetchx() just seemed easier and more efficient. I think I might change it, though.
*bfr
Post by: lachprog on February 19, 2007, 12:29:00 pm
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when the interrupts are redirected, ngetchx() can't be used...? |
The reason AFAIK:
There are several interrupts set up by the AMS, they are triggered repeatedly in a given time interval. One of those interrupts reads the keyboard and temporarly saves keypresses in memory. This is read by ngetchex(). So with interrupts disabled there will be no keyboard reading in AMS, and therefore routines like ngetchx() and other won't work.
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Also, in Catch That Ship, I kind of blindly redirected the interrupt handlers because before, I remembered somebody saying I had to for some reason. Just out of curiousity, does anybody (Lachprog) know the details of why this needs to be done? |
I guess that too was because of keytest. keytest is using the function called _rowread, that requires that interrupt 1 and 5 is disabled. The reason is that _rowread interferes with some AMS keyboard reading functions using interrupts 1 and 5 (probably ngetchx() and other funcs...)
BTW, you will also get rid of the "BUSY" and "2nd" etc. indicator at the bottom of the screen if you redirect interrupts...
Post by: bfr on February 19, 2007, 12:56:00 pm
Here's how I redirected the interrupts, btw:
(global variables):
INT_HANDLER save_int_1, save_int_5;
(in the _main function):
save_int_1=GetIntVec(AUTO_INT_1);
save_int_5=GetIntVec(AUTO_INT_5);
SetIntVec(AUTO_INT_1, DUMMY_HANDLER);
SetIntVec(AUTO_INT_5, DUMMY_HANDLER);
And here's how I'm setting the interrupts back to the way they were:
SetIntVec(AUTO_INT_1, save_int_1);
SetIntVec(AUTO_INT_5, save_int_5);
EDIT: Well, I guess I'll just stick with ngetchx() for now because it's not working....
EDIT AGAIN: Something in the following code is causing the problem:
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| ec1 if((dp = malloc(LCD_SIZE)) == NULL || (lp = malloc(LCD_SIZE)) == NULL || (lp2 = malloc(LCD_SIZE)) == NULL){ Post by: Halifax on February 19, 2007, 02:26:00 pm Post by: bfr on February 19, 2007, 02:31:00 pm  I entered in a fake birthday. :P  Anyway, to celebrate my fake birthday I guess, I finally get it to work! http://bfr.tifreakware.net Post by: Halifax on February 19, 2007, 02:53:00 pm Post by: graywolf on February 19, 2007, 03:28:00 pm Did you get the bug fixed? Post by: bfr on February 19, 2007, 03:56:00 pm
Post by: lachprog on February 20, 2007, 05:20:00 am I think the problem is that you initialize grayscale ( GrayOn() ) BEFORE you redirect the interrupts. You should redirect the interrupts first, then call GrayOn(); The reason is that the grayscale routines "attach" itself to interrupt 1 and/or 5, so when you redirect the interrupts AFTER calling GrayOn() you actually redirect the grayscale. (i just did a quick experiment on this in Super Mario 68K, and it crashed the game...)
I'm not exactly sure, i've never used any of those funcs actually, but i believe so... The tigcc doc says that it uses a keyboard queue, so i'm pretty sure it does... Also, i just saw in the documentation that it might interfere with grayscale :(  ( by calling GKeyIn(), which calls idle(), which might interfere with grayscale )BTW, GKeyFlush() shouldn't be neccessarry if you use keytest only... Hope this is useful for you :) Ant BTW, happy birthday, bfr! I'm just curious, but what are you using lp2 for? EDIT: By some reason my browser didn't show any of the posts from 19 Feb, 2007, 20:31 yesterday until now. Didn't know you had fixed the bug already... Post by: Liazon on February 20, 2007, 05:55:00 am it's bfr's b-day! Happy B-day man!*Liazon Post by: bfr on February 20, 2007, 11:53:00 am
Thanks, that was the problem - well, kind of (but Kevin Kofler already helped me solve it anyway). I was already initializing grayscale before redirecting the interrupts, but Kevin Kofler told me yesterday that it is supposed to be the other way around; the interrupts are supposed to be redirected before grayscale is initialized, which seems odd, but it worked. And yeah, GKeyFlush() didn't seem to be doing anything...I'll eliminate it. I also still think that Galactic is too easy at the moment, so I'm probably going to release another version this weekend that has maybe a few more levels, but the new ones, if they are added, will be hard, and many of the old ones will become harder, and the amount of money the the player starts with will be decreased by half. I have yet to defeat the boss, but I can get to it pretty quickly. Part of why I haven't been able to defeat the boss might be because of s mistake in my coding, so I'll try to double-check that. <_<  Also, remember everybody - there is already a working (but overly easy, in my opinions) version released at http://bfr.tifreakware.net/galactic.zip . Oh, and one more thing - that isn't my real birthday; I entered in a fake birthday. . :angel:  Post by: bfr on February 23, 2007, 11:41:00 am 
Post by: graywolf on February 23, 2007, 12:19:00 pm Looks more like ship sprites...
Post by: bfr on February 23, 2007, 12:26:00 pm 
Post by: graywolf on February 23, 2007, 02:34:00 pm
Post by: bfr on February 24, 2007, 05:53:00 am Anyway, I added a few more levels, added scrolling backgrounds to a few more levels, and made the game slightly harder. It can be downloaded http://bfr.tifreakware.net/galactic.zip. Here are some screenshots:  
Post by: graywolf on February 24, 2007, 08:18:00 am Post by: bfr on February 24, 2007, 09:24:00 am Yes, some level(s) have a black background with scrolling white stars. Post by: graywolf on February 24, 2007, 12:59:00 pm |