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Tech and Homebrew => Turbo/PCE Game/Tool Development => Topic started by: Arkhan on March 16, 2013, 03:31:42 PM
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http://aetherbyte.com/pce_proto.html
Here, everyone!
It's the games that were on that protocard from awhile back.
Slightly different, so no one who got the real thing feels jipped.
PS: They're open source, so you can noodle around and see what we do.
Including all my tunes.
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I doubt that anyone with a protocard is gonna feel jipped by releasing these. I'm thrilled to see everyone else getting a chance to mess around with what only a select few have had access to for a while now. Plus open source code is a big bonus for anyone wanting to design PCE games.
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Woo hoo!
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I doubt that anyone with a protocard is gonna feel jipped by releasing these.
Maybe, Maybe not. But we didn't want to ruin their status as a collector item for the people who helped finance our future ventures (And thank you guys again). After all, it took some serious support to pay for those 3 games on a card. (They could use a -lot- of work :)
With that said, everyone who has been thinking about writing a game now has actual working examples to start with.
You can look at the code, and see how to use squirrel, mix in assembler, handle sprites....heck, there is even a routine to draw to tiles in vram. There is a lot of useful information there.
Now if the guy who wrote that island adventure can use some of those tricks......
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http://aetherbyte.com/pce_proto.html
5-player asteroids?! AWESOME.
Super TG-16 Pong + Tron (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.html)
Now if the guy who wrote that island adventure can use some of those tricks......
Heck yes, and he's here in the forums (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.html)...
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so what ever happened to the protocade, am i correct in thinking a lucky few got a prototype? would have liked to have tried one myself. Releasing the source is great and i will find that useful :)
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so what ever happened to the protocade, am i correct in thinking a lucky few got a prototype? would have liked to have tried one myself. Releasing the source is great and i will find that useful :)
We made 10 cards and used the funds to buy new stuff to further the prototype.
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Hi Arkhan
Thank you for releasing this.
I don't think that I will ever have time to get back into programming but I am sure that I will find it interesting taking a look at how things are done :-)
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im pretty sure I removed all my swearing in the comments.
You should see Atlantean.
The comments are pretty rude, to myself.
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Ark, any idea when the next version of your card is gonna come out? I meant to buy one of the protos, but as usual I procrastinated myself out of it.
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the next release will likely be Atlantean.
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Ultima II...
Sorry, couldn't help myself...
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You wish it was Ultima 2!!!!
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You wish it was Ultima 2!!!!
Yes, yes I do. :wink:
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Does this still exist? Link is down.
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Does this still exist? Link is down.
It's still up on the aetherbyte site. Just check and link worke fine for me.
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Does this still exist? Link is down.
Try this
http://aetherbyte.com/aetherbyte-protocade_for_pc-engine_and_turbografx-16.html
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Does this still exist? Link is down.
Try this
http://aetherbyte.com/aetherbyte-protocade_for_pc-engine_and_turbografx-16.html
Perfect, thanks!
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Nm
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You might have happened to be trying to get stuff while I was upgrading the domain hosty/shit and the site went down for like 5 minutes.
lol