Thrust is an old C64 game. I never played the original but enjoyed an svgalib version a long time ago. Svgalib was used for games when people didn't have machines that could reasonably run X. It requires root to run and can't run under X so it isn't something people do now for the most part. The version I played now has an X version but it requires pseudo color so it is not usable. I updated the code to use SDL. I replaced some images that seemed to have been copied from the original. I renamed the game to Inertia Blast. Of course this included adding Gamerzilla support but it is minimal at the moment with only two achievements. http://identicalsoftware.com/inertiablast/ -- Dennis Payne dulsi@identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi
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Dennis> Thrust is an old C64 game. I never played the original but Dennis> enjoyed an svgalib version a long time ago. Svgalib was used Dennis> for games when people didn't have machines that could Dennis> reasonably run X. It requires root to run and can't run under Dennis> X so it isn't something people do now for the most part. The Dennis> version I played now has an X version but it requires pseudo Dennis> color so it is not usable. Dennis> I updated the code to use SDL. I replaced some images that Dennis> seemed to have been copied from the original. I renamed the Dennis> game to Inertia Blast. Of course this included adding Dennis> Gamerzilla support but it is minimal at the moment with only Dennis> two achievements. Dennis> http://identicalsoftware.com/inertiablast/ I pulled this down, and once I had installed all the sdl2 -dev libs on my Linux Mint 20 system it built just fine, nice and clean. Unfortunately, the full screen blocky graphics weren't as good, but more annoying was the constant flicker the screen as it was refreshing things. Maybe it needs to be a smaller window? I didn't bother to install it, I just ran it from the build dir, which was super nice to be able to do. Congrats on the update! John
There is "-w" for windowed mode. It is really small on most displays as it is 320x200. It never really bothered me but I played it again focusing on the background drawing. I think it is caused from being stretched to a different aspect ratio. The old X11 implementation had a double screen size mode. I have that in Troll Bridge which is the code I based the Inertia Blast drawing code on. I'll try to add that in. Adding a full screen with black borders to keep the aspect ratio would be good too. I'll have to look into that. On Wed, 2021-09-08 at 22:48 -0400, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
I pulled this down, and once I had installed all the sdl2 -dev libs on my Linux Mint 20 system it built just fine, nice and clean.
Unfortunately, the full screen blocky graphics weren't as good, but more annoying was the constant flicker the screen as it was refreshing things.
Maybe it needs to be a smaller window? I didn't bother to install it, I just ran it from the build dir, which was super nice to be able to do. Congrats on the update!
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"Dennis" == Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Dennis> There is "-w" for windowed mode. It is really small on most displays as Dennis> it is 320x200. Cool, I'll have to try that. First I have to understand the game play though! Dennis> It never really bothered me but I played it again focusing on Dennis> the background drawing. I think it is caused from being Dennis> stretched to a different aspect ratio. The old X11 Dennis> implementation had a double screen size mode. I have that in Dennis> Troll Bridge which is the code I based the Inertia Blast Dennis> drawing code on. I'll try to add that in. Adding a full screen Dennis> with black borders to keep the aspect ratio would be good too. Dennis> I'll have to look into that. Cool. John Dennis> On Wed, 2021-09-08 at 22:48 -0400, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote:
I pulled this down, and once I had installed all the sdl2 -dev libs on my Linux Mint 20 system it built just fine, nice and clean.
Unfortunately, the full screen blocky graphics weren't as good, but more annoying was the constant flicker the screen as it was refreshing things.
Maybe it needs to be a smaller window? I didn't bother to install it, I just ran it from the build dir, which was super nice to be able to do. Congrats on the update!
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