pingo [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=27772 Digitized speech on the PICO-8? <p>Remember SAM? (<a href="https://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam">https://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam</a>).</p> <p>Would it be possible in some way to use the white-noise for samples and/or digi-speech?</p> <p>I'm not talking about a full-blown conversion of SAM (<a href="https://github.com/s-macke/SAM">https://github.com/s-macke/SAM</a>), but maybe a smaller version. Also - shouldn't it be possible to use at least 3-bit samples on the PICO-8? (<a href="https://gist.github.com/munshkr/30f35e39905e63876ff7">https://gist.github.com/munshkr/30f35e39905e63876ff7</a>)</p> <p>I'm not the person to dive into this, but maybe someone else might be able to do some sort of conversion of the above. Personally, I would really enjoy being able to have short/small samples and make the Pico speak!</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=33309 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=33309 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:26:31 UTC Mine Train (WIP) <p>Got an idea for a chase-game... Mine Train!</p> <ul> <li>Try to reach the end of the mine and not get caught by the monsters or killed in some other way...</li> <li>Spiders from the roof.</li> <li>Tentacles from the broken underground.</li> <li>Deadly holes in the train track that has to be jumped over (yea, the cart can jump) :)</li> <li>Gain speed by picking up dynamite and throw it at the monster chasing you - and at the same time extend the distance to the chasing cart.</li> <li>And other stuff I guess... :)</li> </ul> <p>Suggestions on everything welcome! Code help most<strong></strong> welcome! ;)</p> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/mine01_0.gif" width=256 height=256 alt="" /> <p>/ Pingo </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30937 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30937 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:53:10 UTC Barbarian <p>So... dumping this stuff here, since I will never be able to actually do anything with this myself. Maybe someone else will be able to actually port this?</p> <p>Short story long:<br /> Back in 1984 I got my first computer (a VTech Laser 210), and it kind of stuck with me since then. So when I discovered some forums and stuff on that back in 2002, I made this stuff for a Barbarian port (which, as you can see, was going to be a collaboration together with Frontier and GOTO80 btw):</p> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/all_sprites.gif" width=128 height=64 alt="" /> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/barbarian_title1.gif" width=128 height=64 alt="" /> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/playfield.gif" width=128 height=64 alt="" /> <p>The Laser 210 has a high-res mode of 128x64 (wow!) with 4 colors. Yeah, the PICO-8 is waaay cooler! ;)</p> <p>So today I ported most of this for the PICO... not completed, and the logo is messed up since I wanted to conserve sprites by re-using A and R (and it's not really working... yet...). The snakes need a lot of work, etc. </p> <p>But, it seems it's possible to push most graphics into the PICO, and I think it should be possible to build the three fight areas too. </p> <p>This is what the three areas looked like in the original Commodore 64 release (back in 1987):</p> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/Barbarian.gif" width=384 height=256 alt="" /> <p><img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/Barbarian_game1_level1.gif" width=322 height=201 alt="" /><img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/Barbarian_game1_level2.gif" width=322 height=201 alt="" /></p> <p>And here is my PICO-8 version from today:</p> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/barbarianpico8.png" width=128 height=128 alt="" /> <p>If anyone wants to have a go at it, I can try to complete the graphics... :)</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30936 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30936 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:35:30 UTC Diamond Ghost <p>Here's DIAMOND GHOST!</p> <p>A 64x64-game, quickly made to learn how to do smtng in lores.</p> <p>Controls:<br /> Arrow keys to control the ghost.<br /> X to start game.</p> <p>You only have three moves. Use them wisely!<br /> You will gain a new life if you catch a diamond and have less than 3 lives...</p> <p>Have fun! :)</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=50207#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico50206.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=50207#p"> Diamond Ghost</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=27772"> pingo</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=50207#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30923 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30923 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:25:48 UTC Text-to-sprite... again. :) <p>Played around with <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2420">YellowAfterLife's char-functions</a>, and ended up creating a C64-sprite-font at the same time...</p> <p>I guess this has already been done a thousand times here, probably much better than this... but I just had to do my own version. </p> <p>Any help with minimizing/optimizing this further would be cool.<br /> Thanks also to <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=34447&amp;amp;tid=28353">Lumiette</a> for the inspiration. :)</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=50142#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico50143.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=50142#p"> Untitled</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=27772"> pingo</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=50142#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30917 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30917 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:44:19 UTC How to make this smaller? (Air Combat mini game) <p>Inspired by the <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30213">TweetJam-thread</a>, I tried to make a small game myself - but I ended up at 594 chars (though not optimized at all). </p> <p>Anyone know how to make this smaller?</p> <p>(It's an &quot;Air Combat&quot; Mini Game... try to shoot down the attacking planes - before they get you! Controls: Arrows and X to shoot. C to restart.)</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49920#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico49919.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49920#p"> Untitled</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=27772"> pingo</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49920#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30889 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30889 Sun, 04 Mar 2018 07:51:45 UTC &quot;Low Nibble Overflow&quot; (Pro-Tracker MOD cover) <p>&quot;Low Nibble Overflow&quot;, by Pingo, 2018.<br /> Original Amiga Pro-Tracker Module by GOTO80/HT, April, 1997.</p> <p>My first take on covering GOTO80's stuff on the PICO-8. I've done some similar stuff on the BeepBox.co before, but this was actually a bit more difficult. :) Anyway - not the whole song, but at least it kind of works.</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49844#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico49843.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49844#p"> Low Nibble Overflow</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=27772"> pingo</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49844#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30871 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30871 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:11:15 UTC Break Dance (sorta) <p>A take on the C64 game Break Dance from 1984 ([youtube]<a href="https://youtu.be/9fT-zK_Kvzc[/youtube">https://youtu.be/9fT-zK_Kvzc[/youtube</a>]).</p> <p>Tried to do something for this: <a href="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30599">elneil's &quot;17 games in on&quot;</a>, though I think it can be much more optimized than this. :) </p> <p>My 2nd game so far on the Pico-8, so I'm still learning, hehe... </p> <p>This should be playable though, token count 421... </p> <p>Any ideas on how to improve it (make it smaller) would be great. Thanks!</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49432#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico49431.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49432#p"> Untitled</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=27772"> pingo</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=49432#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30797 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30797 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:33:55 UTC Anyone up for Prince of Persia? :) <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/pop1.gif" width=384 height=384 alt="" /> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/pop2.gif" width=384 height=384 alt="" /> <img loading="lazy" style="margin-bottom:16px" border=0 src="https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/files/27772/pop3.gif" width=384 height=384 alt="" /> <p>Played around with some pixeling, based on the C64 version (<a href="http://popc64.blogspot.se/">by MrSid </a>).</p> <p>Maybe someone wants to actually code this thing... :)</p> <p>Should be possible to compress this to even fewer sprites - then of course, do all the other levels and stuff and the amazing animations...</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30791 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30791 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:05:35 UTC Mini Ronin <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=48980#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico48979.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=48980#p"> Mini Ronin 1</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=27772"> pingo</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=48980#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> <p>Hello everyone...</p> <p>Got PICO-8 yesterday. I had never even heard about Lua. I'm not a coder (as everyone can see) :) but I thought the whole concept was interesting. I grew up with the 64 (though my first computer was a Laser 210), so obviously this is great fun.</p> <p>Mini Ronin was a first stab at this, to see if I could even make anything that resembles a game. </p> <p>Have fun! (And yes, the music can be turned off with the down key!) ;)</p> <p>/ Pingo</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30728 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30728 Sun, 04 Feb 2018 17:23:32 UTC