NEW Cracktro

[Leginus]

Just a quick cracktro idea to keep me entertained until the next one which will have a few more things in it.

Hope you guys like it. It's keeping out of trouble anyway :)

ps. I know its actually chequer, but i like "checker". See the zip file if you think I am talking crazy lol

[Mike Halliday]

Ha ha, just like the old days :)

I really like your text routines - it looks like proper PPC game font! :)

Your display routine is sharp! :) - Are you using individual sprites or surfaces?

We should start a function library of demo code! :) - scrollers, text routines, image processing, sprite funcs etc - then anyone can pick bits and bobs and make a demo.

M.

[Leginus]

I agree. I am all up for code sharing as I love watching cracktros and demos, but I thought if we put the source in the diskmag then it keeps up the interest, but I am more than happy to release some snippets before to help in the forums.

I am using separate sprites for the text routine, however, the routine makes sure that it doesn't use any sprites for the spaces, it just increase the xpos by the letter width.

The scrolling chess background is indvidual sprites on a black background.
What i tend to do is write a demo 3 different ways to see which is the quickest.

While we are on the subject of different things, I have found a pocketpc dll that can play c64 sid tunes, and I have the source code to the dll and the source code to the player (both in c++). I can code in c++ to a certain extent, but I am FAR from proficient, so I thought that somebody may like to have a look at calling this dll into ppl and extending the sound capabilities of ppl even further. If anyone is interested let me know. If not I will look at this soon and see what happens

[Mike Halliday]

LEGINUS:I agree. I am all up for code sharing as I love watching cracktros and demos, but I thought if we put the source in the diskmag then it keeps up the interest, but I am more than happy to release some snippets before to help in the forums.

OK, thats fine, we will release via the disk mag then - it gives more content and also keeps people coming back for more! :)

LEGINUS:I am using separate sprites for the text routine, however, the routine makes sure that it doesn't use any sprites for the spaces, it just increase the xpos by the letter width.

LEGINUS:The scrolling chess background is indvidual sprites on a black background.
What i tend to do is write a demo 3 different ways to see which is the quickest.

I would have used surfaces for the checkerboard, but then I like surfaces at the moment! hee hee

LEGINUS:While we are on the subject of different things, I have found a pocketpc dll that can play c64 sid tunes, and I have the source code to the dll and the source code to the player (both in c++). I can code in c++ to a certain extent, but I am FAR from proficient, so I thought that somebody may like to have a look at calling this dll into ppl and extending the sound capabilities of ppl even further. If anyone is interested let me know. If not I will look at this soon and see what happens

Oh that sounds good; SID tunes in PPL - I hope you find someone able to help. - Wonder if there are any YM (Atari ST) playback dlls for PPC? - that would be good as I have thousands of .YM music files we could use! :)


The more we can add to PPL the better it makes it as a product.

Keep em coming sonny jim!

[Nicknack]

fantastic cracktro Leginus!
fl.th..2..the chip is one of my favorites since I have heard it in Superbomber (http://superbomber.en.softonic.com/pocketpc) :p

maybe I will also make a little demo, you and Mike inspired me and I'm also interested in this sid library, but I have only sparse knowledge in c++. you can pm anyway if you need help ;)

[Leginus]

@Mike
Yes i will look at surfaces for the next one I think. Not too up on them at the moment but obviously this is the way to go.

@Nicknack
Thanks. Glad you like it. And fantastic news that you might do a demo. Would love to see it. Watching old cracktros and demos in one of my favourite chilling out pastimes on the pc, so any new ones will be great. Looking forward to it. :)