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Martin H.

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  Volhout said  
P.S. I have send the link to Martin's video to David, asked him for shipping the package (I had the kit and description ready), and his interest has gone (as some of you have predicted). So I have one surplus VGA kit.

We didn't do it for fame and money. Money would be enough.
But many of the techniques that came about in the game can now be helpful for other projects.
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MarkF
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Posted: 09:13am 28 Dec 2023
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My niece and nephew playing Petscii Robots over Christmas.

A big Thank you to Volhout, Martin, Mick and others who made this game possible on the PicoMite.


 
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The game is on the 8 bit guys shareware download page.

It makes me happy to see it is being used. MarkF thanks for sharing the photo.

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Martin H.

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  Volhout said  The game is on the 8 bit guys shareware download page.


Volhout


Mark
nice to see your niece and nephew having fun with the Game
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Martin H.

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@Volhout and others
Maybe this could be a successor

Tile based Maps, less Puzzeling, more action, but rescuing kidnapped people.
aliens instead of robots, same perspective in viewing.
So this could be done on a tuned "Petrobot engine"
Alien Syndrome (Sega 1986).

It wouldn't be a 1:1 arcade conversion but I think the Pico is somewhere between Amiga and SEGA Master System. I would voluntarily create the graphics and the music again.

Think about it


Screenshot Atari ST
you can try the Dos Version here
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matherp
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Harm

In Petscii how do I turn on reporting the spare time in the process loop? I'm playing with some performance tweaks and this would be a good test for them

Thanks

Peter
 
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Hi Peter,

This is not taken from the last release (I am at work currently) but it should be very similar.



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thwill

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Casts "Raise Dead" on thread.

@Volhout is the 22nd December version the "final" version ?

Did you ever publish it to a public GitHub ? If not then can I do so ?

Best wishes,

Tom
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Volhout
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Yes Tom, the Christmas release is the last one I worked on.
All levels are playable. I am not really happy with the gamemite play, I think the key repeat makes it difficult to move objects. But that may just be me.

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thwill

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Thanks Volhout,

I wanted it to give my new SNES controller a workout, plus I still haven't built and tested a Wii controller adapter with the PicoMite; despite Peter having sent me some bits to canibalise months ago.

Regarding the Game*Mite version, it doesn't feel like we ever reached a definitive version of that, and it is on my TODO list to revisit. Remember no software project is ever completed, only abandoned ...

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2024-03-30 20:10 by thwill
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lizby
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  thwill said  Remember no software project is ever completed, only abandoned


My formulation of this about 45 years ago was "Any software project that takes more than 2 weeks takes an infinite amount of time".
PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed
 
Volhout
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All,

Attached version of PETROBOT has 3 executables

- robots.bas : the 2023 Christmas release
- robots2.bas : A version with bug fixes, runs on RP2040 and RP2350A on VGA and Game*MIte. Controllers are configured by "uncommenting" code.
- robots6.bas : A test version that in VGA mites tries to auto detect controllers. runs on RP2040 and RP2350A VGA (and also on Game*Mite).

petrobot .zip

Regards,

Volhout
Edited 2024-10-07 17:43 by Volhout
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