Erik,
I just played it a bit on MacStella and it runs well. Do you have a
complete list of changes so I can compare it to the original (this will
also be useful when this version finds its way into the AA Store)? Two
things I noticed when playing that would make nice improvements:
1) Is it possible to have some type of animated explosion when you die?
2) I may be misremembering from the arcade, but doesn't the player
"blink" when starting a new level and/or after dying?
..Al
On Apr 1, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Erik Mooney wrote:
OK, never mind that last binary I sent. Here's one with full PAL
support.
Feedback as to its timing behavior and the look of the colors on real
PAL
hardware would be much appreciated.
I may be ready to call this the ultimate final version of INV+. That
pronouncement will wait until I get a chance to run a round of serious
testing on real hardware (especially in 2-player), but I know of
nothing
else right now that needs to be changed.
Changelog 04/01/04:
- Added PAL support. Flip the switch to B/W and back to Color to
cycle to
the next video mode. It supports NTSC 60Hz, PAL 50Hz, and PAL 60Hz.
Thanks to Glenn's color chart here for the PAL colors:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/200109/msg00285.html
- While I was at it, brightened up several of the colors a tad. The
invaders in the arcade are white, so this goes a bit closer to that
(but I
like the colors better than making them all white.)
- Fixed a bug where hitting Reset while the saucer was on the screen
caused its sound effect to get stuck.
- Think I fixed a bug where sometimes the player's missile hitting an
invader's bomb would make the game think the saucer had just been hit
and
award 50-300 points. I'm not *completely* sure this is fixed, as it
happens pretty rarely, but I think I nailed it.
<inv40104.bin>
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