Hello @ScottFromScott
Thank you for sharing the app, and the info about the creation. It's very interesting, i was thinking was an atari 2600 game but it's an atari XL game. Is not important, but was funny to think HOW GREAT LOOK an 2600 game, with all limitation they have.
Well. I have a question for you. Do you think we can add some MORE obstacles, like pits and bigger cactus? cactus of different size and make the jump higher or smaller for that reason.
It's only a question to think, i do not want to take any of your time making more than you do. Again, it's only a question.
I like the idea of pits since there is already a 'jump' feature to jump over them.The pit could be represented by an ImageSprite that is the same color as the background color so would appear as a curved break in the line. Sizing the cactus would be simple to do as long as the Roadrunner can still jump over it. And the height of the jump can be adjusted also. To add another cactus just create another ImageSprite cactus and position it behind the Roadrunner. All the other settings would be the same for the second cactus. Good luck and have fun with it!
I am thinking in adding this features and maybe some more, also, i will try to make directly in 6502 code (for Atari 2600 or Commodore 64). Maybe for ZX Spectrum basic or worst in Machine code for z80.
Those sound like fun projects. Working with 6502 code reminds me of my Commodore VIC-20 days where I wrote an assembler, then a a program to get 40 characters on the screen. I made the character set where the characters were only three pixels wide!
Off course Scott, it's Fun!. The younger generations doesn't know how fun is develop software with A LOT OF HARDWARE LIMITATIONS and make you CREATIVE.
As you can see, my avatar have a ZX Spectrum, and it's for that reason, i have a computer "museum?", it's a collection. And also, have a kind of ONG.
I collect computers, i repair them and i give it to rural schools, forgotten by the states (inner states or national, it's the same). I only give them the new computers i found, the old ones, came to the collection. So, all have what they need. And obviously when i have a lot of recorder material i will make a youtube channel, but now, i have enough things to do to be recording videos. I am myself doing all, and is not enough.
Returning to this subject. I am sure that the ZX Spectrum version i will do it easily.
Thanks again Scott. a joy interact with you.
Pd, if i make it, i will share it too. Who knows? Maybe there are another ZX spectrum and 8bit computers lovers, here too.
Also, sorry for my English spelling, i am a Spanish talker.
This is version 2 of the game which corrects the sizes of the image sprites. I had tested only on the emulator for the previous version. This one should work better. The roadrunner jumping has also been adjusted to make it more playable.
Dear @German_Skena and @ScottFromScott, here you have another 'old poor stupid software guy' who started on the early '80ies to code in assembly language (8085 and Z80).
My first computer was an Apple II C (compact) equipped with a 6502 as microprocessor (I opened it to see inside !). Since with peek and poke (in the video RAM) was too slow to draw a flying saucer to be hit by a weapon sliding left and right on the floor, I decided to write my code in assembly lang. At that time I was working in an (italian) aerospace company , so I had the possibility to have a look to the 6502 data sheet (by Rockwell at that time) and its machine code. Once back to home I wrote a line-editor, a x-compiler, a linker and a memory imager in Basic for Apple. Once done with all that stuff I saved everything on a 5" floppy and I put it on my night clock (annexed photo).
The morning after, the floppy was completely empty: the reason ? The clock contains an electric motor, therefore it has a rotating magnetic field, that erased my floppy
So I decided to sell my Apple (and I did it), to buy an IBM (a cheap compatible one) with 8088, and from that point onward I started to play with already made games....
PS as you can see, the clock is still (40 years later) on my desk ...but no floppies on it !!!