cool, btw do u refer to a sprite sheet or the real game to take your sprites? I mean a sprite sheet on the web or somethign&?  

ah I see

QuoteBegin-Mic+27 October 2005, 11:33

Thanks for your interest in the game Mic.

Not a whole lot of "forward" progress, but I have been working hard on it.

I attempted to move the screen drawing routine to an interrupt handler, but later decided against it (it did not look very good). I have also been reformatting some data files to make make more efficient use of my RAM. The largest file on a 68k calc is approximately 64Kb. Currently, the Ultima V main engine is effectively 35Kb. So, I need to be smart about usage RAM usage. I can always use the DLL option if I need more space for functionality, but only as a last resort. Nothing to worry about.

I have also been thinking about how I want to implement many things... including combat. -+X+-

QuoteBegin-dragon__lance+27 October 2005, 15:25

Have you played a classic Ultima before? By "classic", I mean Ultima 1 to 6.

Combat will be exactly like Ultima V for the PC -- which happens to be very similar to Ultima IV and Ultima III. It is "round robin" turn based combat engine. When it is your turn, you can do one thing such as move, attack, or cast a spell. However, I think when your strength, dexterity, and intelligence get high enough, you get to do 2 things per turn... Cool! B)

Same for the monsters... they can move, attack, or cast spells. Some monsters have special abilities like: splitting into 2 monsters when hit,  moving through walls, teleportation, camoflouge, resistance to magic, etc.

I never played anything after Ultima V. I gave up computers at that point in my life.

This post has been edited by Ranman on 27 Oct, 2005, 16:27

QuoteBegin-Kevin+2 November 2005, 11:56

Ultima V is progressing. In the past week I have done a couple of things:

 - I attempted to move the drawing to an interrupt handler. I did not like the result so I back out all of the code. Wasted 2 days of work but it was fun trying. I may still look at this subject again. I would really rather have it asynchronous to the event engine.

 - Reformatted some data files, saving ~ 1.5Kb RAM. This of course broke a few things that I had to go back and fix.

 - Implemented the combat player selection overlay sprite and the combat crosshair overlay sprite for aiming purposes. The combat map is an 11x11 map. This map will host up to 6 party members and up to 16 monsters at once. Even though combat is round robin, it can still be very intense.

- Implemented entering "special" dungeon combat rooms correctly. Dungeon rooms are identical to combat maps except you can enter these rooms from any direction: North, South, East, West, Up, and Down. So, I needed to find the correct initial positions for every party member and every monster.

 - Tweaked the middle "General Information" window to display more applicable information while in dungeons, towns, and the Underworld. For instance, in the Underworld, there is no wind and you cannot see the sun or moon (the Underworld map is 256x256 and it is totally dark -- you better have a lot of torches). Dungeons, of course, do not have the sun and moons, but they do have levels -- each dungeon has 8 levels. B)

Wow    

And this is for the 92+ V200, isn't it?  

still sound nice though. I hope to be able to try it in VTI