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| Volhout Guru  Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
Martin, Kevin, others, Here is the latest version with - difficulty listed in end screen - magnet working you can drop one, and when a bot walks over it the bot is confused for 15 sec you can pick it up again by walking over it Regards, Volhout pet24h.zip PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
Tested on VGA and LCD .. also the EMP Flash works fine on both Version  'no comment |
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| Bleep Guru Joined: 09/01/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 509 |
Hi Harm, Working well here, VGA & LCD, only very minor comment, it looks to me like the fans are going in the wrong direction? Regards, Kevin. Edit, it appears to be an optical illusion, they sometimes appear to go one way, then you look again and they look like they are going the other way, so ignore me. Edited 2023-11-20 05:20 by Bleep |
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| Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
Hi Kevin, Flags, Water and the Server have 4 Animation tiles, but Fan only 2 States of 4 Tiles, so it depends on your mind, which direction they go  Edited 2023-11-20 05:52 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
Tom, Martin, I have received an answer from David. He has no objections for our develompent and seemed interested. My original mail: Hi David, Members of "thebackshed.com" are close to finalizing a port of PETSCII ROBOTS that runs completely in interpreted Basic. It runs on a Raspberry Pi pico based stand alone MMbasic computer. Very similar to the Maximite computer you demonstrated few years ago. Would you be interested (for your channel) to build a simplified kit of the computer, and look at the implemention of the game in basic. There is absolutely no commercial interest in this, since we are a group of hobyists that do this for fun. Would you object if we place the PETSCII ROBOTS basic source code on GitHub ? Thank you for your answers, and keep the channel alive.... Volhout @ thebackshed.com David Murray's answer (email). That's pretty neat. I didn't realize this was even something in the works. Unfortunately, I'm booked for the next 6 months or so with projects. So I really can't commit to anything else at the moment. But I would like to see updates, especially if somebody makes a video showing the gameplay. Also, you are free to distribute it however you want. I'll even host it in the free-download section on my own website if you want, when it is done. I was surprized about the positive and fast reply. So let's finish this project.... Before Christmas... Volhout Yesterday had a small set-back. I implemented the plasma explosion....in pet24f.bas...loosing all the changes we did in pet24g.bas and pet24h.bas to make LCD and NES controller work. I hope I recovered in making all the plasma changes also in pet24h.bas. I will test this thoroughly before I release it since it is so easy to forget 1 change. (a diff compare between 2 versions so far apart is not usefull). Edited 2023-11-20 18:16 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
@Martin, Quick question: you played with the DOS version more than I did. When robots are under EMP or Magnet, do they still do damage (i.e. a rollerbot still shoots?). Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
hmm ..good Question, I can't say, I've never paid attention to it .. what does the manual say Edited 2023-11-20 19:33 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4043 |
Excellent, that sounds like a complete "green light" then, accelerate to attack speed  .Best wishes, Tom Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
Not decisive... I will look into the C++ code what they do... Question 2: your latest MOD file...rushing in....when does it play ? Volhout Edited 2023-11-20 21:10 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
The order always seems to be Tune 0,Tune1, Tune 2 LEVEL_MUSIC[] = { 0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1 }; should be 0 Get psyched 1 metallic_bop_amiga 2 rushing in" But I'll investigate that further Edited 2023-11-20 22:01 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
Hi Martin, You are suggesting depending on the level you either play tune 0, 1 or 2 That is easy to implement. Tune = level mod 3. Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
Hi Tom, you are right, it is just NES, but was immediately recognized as an NES controller. even those two "Shoulder Buttons are copy of A and B.. You wanted to see what's inside:  but the controller felt good in the hand, and if I manage to get it back together, I'll use it anyway SNES Clone with SNES Connector ist ordered Edited 2023-11-20 22:48 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4043 |
Thanks, how are the shoulder buttons mounted, on right-angle tac-switches or with little bits of PCB ? As I said earlier there is no guarantee there either. I have some of those and they have a 5V micro-controller inside them instead of the expected shift-register(s). You'd need a level-shifter for them to work. Best wishes, Tom Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
That may be true for the WII controller also...Good thing these Aliexpress level shifters are 4 channels. 2 for PS2 keyboard, 2 for other applications... Volhout Edited 2023-11-20 22:57 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
The 2 spare channels should be fine for Latch & Clock from the Pico to the controller Data from the controller to the pico may be able to be linked by a simple resistor voltage divider DATA ---[ R ]--+-[2R ]---| Gnd | Pico Pin 5V/3*2=3.33V Edited 2023-11-20 23:55 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
Martin, Is it correct that the current "get psyched.mod" not supports SFX ? Or did I include the wrong mod file ? Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
I will look this afternoon, I have to compress the Samples so far, that all together fits in 125 k without destroying to much .. 'no comment |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6798 |
The WII controllers are officially 3V3, I think. I've seen reports of people running them on 5V but whether they last long at that voltage is something else. :) At the moment PicoGAME 4 feeds NES/SNES controllers at 5V and WII controllers at 3V3 - both voltages are on the connector. Incidentally, Simply plugging in a NES/SNES controller is the default setup. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
Martin, all, This is the last version in the 24 series. I think I have all game play in the main loop. Intro and ending may need some tuning, and Martin is still looking at one of the music scores. New in this version: - EMP drowns hoverbots hovering over water - Plasma gun makes nice explosions..watch out not to kill yourself - ESC also pauzes, second ESC is exit. - music score different per level Known issues - level 01/04/07/10/13 do not have sound effects (the mod file has none yet). After this release we will move into the petrobot25 release that only contains the needed files for gameplay (petrobot24 still has all original tiles). I target petrobot25 as the "beta series". After Tom implements his controller interface, we will go for release candidates. pet24m.zip Volhout - cheat key F3 still works.... - I will focus my time from now on testing and bug fixing. Edited 2023-11-21 22:07 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4246 |
All, The method of creating the binary flash file from tile data is quite elaborate. That is why I wrote a description, to preserve it when my own memory fades... howto_petrobot_flash_lib.zip Volhout Edit: minor timing update so game ending also works with my home PS2 keyboard. pet24n.zip Edited 2023-11-22 17:20 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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