The MEGA65 team presents MEGAMAZE

Nice. Standard Wolf3D on PC didn't have textured floors or a skybox.

Yes, but "Blake Stone" did (which was made with the same (but improved) engine). This demo's floor texture looks a bit fake, probably done in a similar way like the skybox.

But it's cool of course it's still a bit laggy but maybe it can be improved further? I would love to play a game like that on the MEGA65

Awesome. That looks great for now.

Cool !

Pusti64

Watching that video I was waiting to hear -> "Halt! Stehen bleiben!"

Source code is currently at: github.com/gardners/raycaster.git

I plan to do some blog posts explaining how it is all done.

LG

Paul.

You're welcome. Yes, its currently in almost pure C, except for the snippets for weird things like the music interrupt handler, that allows the SID file to be located above 64KB. You're more than welcome to help me finish the game for release if you like, as my available time to dedicate to it is not that great for the next few weeks at least.

LG

Paul.

Zitat von ubik

Hey Paul, many thanks for the offer, I feel honored. But as I'm currently already up to my knees in porting/rewriting Dragon Rock for the MEGA65, I fear I have to pass up on the opportunity (for now)

Ooooh Don't let me distract you from that, then!

But do poke me if you need any help or questions along the way.

For example, if you want to use 256-colour text mode.

LG

Paul

"i don't like what you are doing please do something else thank you"

Zitat von ZeHa

"i don't like what you are doing please do something else thank you"

When quoting, you should also indicate the author. Tip: It was definitely not me.

Zitat von atomcode

I don't really like 3D stuff on 8-bit machines. I would rather ...

Who says you have to like everything someone else shows you? And isn't it allowed to ask for something else? Or should I rather buy a pig in a poke?

i wasn't quoting someone specifically, as there were several comments that seem to be not ok with how Paul uses his time

Zitat von FeralChild

Actually, I would prefer to see a complete developer documentation first, than finished game. Unfortunately, the "VIC-IV" chapter has a lot of gaps, I'm especially interested in the Raster-Rewrite buffer - is it possible to have a 80x50 text screen as a complete overlay of a 640x400 pixels graphic screen (might be simulated by a text screen with 4000 user-defined characters)? Is it possible with the "16 colours per character" mode?

That would be a great BASIC feature - to have the normal screen mode, and be able to draw on the screen that is behind it

Agreed on all points. I ported the engine really as a demonstration programme for various features. The raster-rewrite buffer can be used in any text mode, but not bitplane mode. You just have to set up a wide enough logical screen, and burn some RAM on it. Now, the problem you will have at 640x400 is most likely available RAM, as there isn't enough RAM to have a 256-colour screen (needs ~256KB) at that res. Basically you are limited to hires mono -- or use multi-colour mode to have effectively 320x200 with 4 colours -- or use the nybl mode of full-colour text mode to get 16 colours at 640x400, which would likely be just fine for BASIC. You can have a different 16 colours for the graphics vs text.

Its on my (very long) mental list of things to do, to rewrite the $6000 BASIC graphics routine ROM to use the MEGA65 modes to give BASIC 10 a nice improvement in graphics capability, and also to avoid the bugs in the C65 ROM graphics routines.

LG

Paul.