Subject: Re: Question about your VCS simulator [ Was Re: [stella] TIA Playfield Painter V1.02 Released] From: KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 5 May 2004 20:37:34 -0000 |
> > How compatible is the code with the actual 6507/TIA? It seems to be the > closest thing to a full devkit anyone has done, and combined with your other > tools intrigues me, but can the results eventually be converted into an > actual cart or is it a horse of a completely different color? I havent explored any "code generating" abilities of the tool (though I've written some similar stuff myself w/ the leprechaun editor) but while it's feasible and in some ways useful to be able to generate working, compilable code (great for learning how to draw a playfield) and someone could then put that binary onto a cart, you'd just have a simple static display on a cart. Cool, but not that interesting. For the foreseeable future, the "dev kit" will be DASM plus a good text editor, ideally one that does syntax color, and eith batch files or in-editor-compilation scripts, plus an emulator. Tools like this one (and similar ones I've made myself, PlayerPal / PlayfieldPal on http://alienbill.com/2600/ can be very useful, but for any non-trivial game, there's still plenty of coding to be done. Two thoughts for my fellow [stella]-ites: random idea: make a generic gunfight-like kernal, and tie it into an online player editor, and let people make their own custom head to head shooter with any 8*N graphic they can come up with...(and also a title screen generator) autogenerate binaries, and then maybe work out a deal w/ AtariAge to let people make their own one off carts, all online. (maybe optionally uploading graphics for the cart art..) Kind of a highly automated graphical-Hack generator Whaddya think, Al, would that be fun and/or profitable? The other thought:: look, can someone tell me, did I imagine this utility that let you enter note data, and then the program would spit out frequency suggestions based on a closest fit algorithm? Maybe JoustPong's tune was so simple (C, Eb, D, Db) that I could find good matches easily just by looking at the generated frequency charts, http://alienbill.com/2600/cookbook/music/slocum.txt or http://alienbill.com/2600/cookbook/music/stolberg.txt Anyway, that's another utility that, if it doesn't exist, needs writing... -- KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://kisrael.com "Sometimes your shallowness is so thorough, it's almost like depth."--Daria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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