----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Park" <alp...@......com>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:06 PM
AP > Hello All,
AP >
AP > Good to see some activity on here.
AP >
AP > It would be interesting to know what projects people are working on I have a
AP > Hunchback game in progress ...
I'd like to see a version of Hunchback! That was always a favourite of mine
back in the arcades of
the early '80s! :-)) Oh to find a *real* arcade these days, instead of all
those fruit machines! :-(
As for my projects? Well, I started three different projects - the earliest
being sometime back in '98.
All of them got to various stages of completion, and all of them are scattered
about on various floppy
disks and/or in various .ZIP files. I think the last time I looked at any of
the code must be around 10
years ago... I'm sure you'll know what it's like looking at decade-old code,
it probably won't make a
lot of sense these days! Although I comment my code quite well, it's the little
"tricks" used at the time
which you tend to forget! Especially the "how or why" you did something in a
particular way! ;-)
Projects were:
QIX - A version of the Taito classic. Got as far as the layout, player code
and section fill routine.
CHESS - As the title says! Gordon Wallis (HEXdidn't...) drew some fantastic
graphics for this, which
really should see the light of day. Engine was all but complete, but I wasn't
satisfied with the playing
strength. Needs plenty of tuning I feel, to stop it making the occasional
stupid move!
BATTLEZONE - A version of the Atari classic. This was going to be my follow up
to Defender, and
the earliest of the three projects. The plan was to make it as arcade
"perfect" as possible. Got as far as
the basic "3D" stuff, and line blitting code. With the advent of Thomas
Harte's ultra-complete/complex
3D engine any game in that genre (including this project) is now pretty much
redundant.
So, there are (were!) my projects - all in various states of completion!
Whether any of them get finished
is another matter! It's been so long since I looked at any of the code it
would probably be quicker to do
a re-write rather than try to understand the jumbled code I wrote all those
years ago!! ;-)
MISSILE COMMAND and CENTIPEDE were on the cards, too. Although neither of
these were ever
started.
Chris...
