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Arkhan

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The protocade...
« on: March 16, 2013, 03:31:42 PM »
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.
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2013, 03:48:55 PM »
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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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2013, 03:53:15 PM »
Woo hoo!

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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2013, 05:05:14 PM »
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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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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2013, 12:15:26 AM »
http://aetherbyte.com/pce_proto.html


5-player asteroids?! AWESOME.
Super TG-16 Pong + Tron





Now if the guy who wrote that island adventure can use some of those tricks......



Heck yes, and he's here in the forums ...

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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2013, 11:36:59 AM »
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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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2013, 12:49:34 PM »
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.
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2013, 05:39:40 AM »
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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« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2013, 05:43:15 AM »
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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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2013, 06:50:51 AM »
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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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2013, 07:01:15 AM »
the next release will likely be Atlantean.
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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2013, 09:02:19 AM »
Ultima II...

Sorry, couldn't help myself...

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« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2013, 06:37:44 AM »
You wish it was Ultima 2!!!!

[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
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« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2013, 11:38:59 AM »
You wish it was Ultima 2!!!!

Yes, yes I do. :wink:

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Re: The protocade...
« Reply #14 on: June 11, 2016, 09:31:54 AM »
Does this still exist?  Link is down.