beta New game uploaded: Invaderz

[BruceMcF 155]

8 hours ago, Fnord42 said:

No, have a look here: https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-docs/blob/master/VERA Programmer's Reference.md
The VERA does a fixed resolution of 640x480@60Hz, smaller resolutions are actually done via scaling.

To be clear, is that one scaling parameter, or is it a choice of (640,320)x(480,240) logical bitmaps with an additional scaling to what part of the logical bitmap is shown on the screen?

All I need right now is the "old KERNAL" call to the number of characters per row in the screen mode, so my "SuperCPU C64" emulator and x16emu displays both work correctly from the same binary, but eventually I am sure there is going to be a demand for output to the proportional character display w/embedded bitmaps, a la GeoForth.

Edited September 14 by BruceMcF

[SerErris 69]

No it is actually two parameters, and they can work idependently.

So you can set hscale to 64 and get 320 and vscale to 52 (as far as I remember from my old brain) and that gives you 200... So you have a resolution of 320x200. So you can scale to any value. I have not tried myself what happens if you scale to anything between 64 and 52 ... 

Regarding the number of characters per Row... that is also affected by vscale and hscale.. 
128 for hscale equals 80 characters. Where 64 equals 40 characters and so on... 16 would equal 10 characters  

AFAIK (not 100% sure) you can only scale the whole VERA. That means, you cannot scale the two layers with differenet scaling parameters.

[Ender 43]

Just to be clear though, in "screen 128" mode, it's scaled to 320x240, but then the bottom border is made bigger, so it cuts off the bottom 40 pixels.  If it was scaled to 320x200 it would probably look a little squished, hence having the black border on the bottom.

[AndyMt 108]

New Version 0.4:

Some gameplay changes:

• Level is lost when bottom enemy progresses to shields/fortress.
  You then fall back to the previous level and can try to advance again.
• If you fail level 1, then the game is over, too (or all lives lost).
• Enemy movements get more difficult with each level.
  They move faster, they advance faster. Patterns still the same
• Player sprite now has more realistic lag, when changing direction.
  Let me know what you think about this one. It was just unrealistically fast with the mouse, so I made it more difficult.

Other improvements:

• More Levels!
  The background story is now more complete. The descriptions for levels > 2 don't yet match the description in relation to enemy behavior or motherships etc.
• Different enemy sprites
  I experiment with different enemy styles now. Most will probably be replaces later again. I like the martians, though ...  
• Sprite animation for player sprite
  Player spaceship now shows thruster plumes and tilts when moving.

[AndyMt 108]

Forgot to mention some cheat-codes in this version :

'L': jump to next level
'R': return to previous level

[AndyMt 108]

New Version 0.5:

• Fixed the collision detection - finally!
• More enemy sprite graphics.
• Minor speed and game play changes.

Have fun!

[AndyMt 108]

New Version 0.6:

• More enemy sprites, final designs
  These sprites should now be complete. Maybe I'll fine tune them later. VRAM constraints won't allow more enemies, without loading them in the fly.
• Animated enemy sprites
  All enemy sprites are now animated with 4 frames each. Despite the number of sprites on the screen this seems to be no performance issue yet.
• More diverse level compositions
  The formations of enemies is now more diverse

Next I'll probably try to make some enemies break formation and attack. Or maybe I have them close their ranks from time to time. Let's see .