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vegipete Guru  Joined: 29/01/2013 Location: CanadaPosts: 1099 |
I thought I would have a quick go at hacking together a lunar lander game. Here is the result: Use left/right arrows to rotate, [space bar] to fire engines.  LunarLander2.zip I must say, the abilities of the Colour Maximite 2 make this a simple task in a number of ways. For example, I wanted smooth lander rotation with all lateral movement generated by the main engine. I went with 19 sprites, each turned 5 degrees from the previous. This gave me 0 to 90 degrees. Sprite orientation finished the full 360 degrees. Nice! Alas, my first attempt was a rather wobbly rotation. But then I thought, why am I doing all this image generation by hand? Duh, use the image rotate function! So the only sprite required is the lander straight up, with and without rocket flames. The program itself rotates the base image to each angle, then uses the result to make a sprite. Net result: 19 images with no burn, 19 more with engines firing. Enjoy! Edited 2020-07-07 12:42 by vegipete Visit Vegipete's *Mite Library for cool programs. |
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SimpleSafeName Guru Joined: 28/07/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 312 |
My first exposure to Lunar Lander was at the Air Force Academy on a PDP11. The program was loaded from paper tape, which took 43 minutes to load. And for those of you wondering, no I wasn't a cadet. I was a high school student from just down the hill from Arnold Hall (being in Colorado, literally just down the hill). The burning question in my mind is does it have the McDonald's on the moon? The original game did. I guess that I will have to play it to find out. :) |
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| vegipete Guru Joined: 29/01/2013 Location: CanadaPosts: 1099 |
Here's a minor update. I added stars and the ability to fly off the top of the screen. Also, basic lander performance characteristics are now constants near the top of the program. LunarLander2v2.zip Visit Vegipete's *Mite Library for cool programs. |
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Sasquatch Guru Joined: 08/05/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 324 |
Very nice VegiPete! And challenging while being quite playable. The Atari game and the CMM1 version also had some nifty sound effects and an exploding module when it crashed just to make sure you know you are dead! Should be easy to implement? Not trying to step on any toes here  -Carl |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2906 |
Hi All, @Vegipete Great effort, Brings back memories, My first LL was text entries but I did play a version similar to yours. Now we all know I am not great at programming but just for fun I put a bit of sound in there.. I quite like it and I am sure there would be better ways to do it, but hey I had some fun in between building Colour Maximite-II's I had to adjust the volume right down near the start of the program as my sound box (No volume control) outputs the sound way too loud so you may have to adjust the volume to suit your setup.. Anyway I Hope someone else enjoys it too. LunarLander2v3.zip Kind Regards Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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realmnm Newbie  Joined: 07/07/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 34 |
I saw this and had the same idea, that it needed sound. I did it a slightly different way, so I thought I would post my interpretation of it. LunarLander2v2WS.zip Martin This signature intentionally left blank. |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 847 |
OK I've had a fiddle too. This is based on BigMik's, which is based on VegiPete's which is . . . All I've done is added a volume adjustment and made the landing Pad green. As with VegiePete's, left/right arrows rotate, space fires the rocket and "+", "-" alter the volume, and down arrow toggles mute on/off. I've also changed the "Success" sound effect file to "Landed.MOD" ie "The Eagle has landed" but you can comment that out etc. Cheers, Andrew LunarLander2v4.zip |
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| capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 341 |
Did you mean to include the sound effect file in the zip? I only saw the main basic program file. The volume control is good though. |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 847 |
Hi Capsikin, Sorry about that. I'll post a new (improved) version, hopefully later today, and I'll include the missing files. Cheers, Andrew |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 847 |
Hi All, Here is an updated Lunar Lander, hopefully with all the sound files - plus some. Please let me know if it works, if it doesn't and any improvements "someone" should make. Cheers, Andrew LunarLander2v5.zip |
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| capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 341 |
Works for me! For improvements, I'm kind of keen to see games supporting the nunchuk, classic controller, or CMM2 joystick interface convention. But first, is there anyone who'd want to test that? |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 847 |
Thanks for the feedback capsikin. I'm afraid that writing stuff for the NunChuck etc is out of my league but a joystick connection would be of interest to me too. Cheers, Andrew |
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| capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 341 |
When I was looking at the other versions, I was thinking larger more pixelated text would give a nice retro look. But for your version with the gauges I think the small text suits it. |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 847 |
Hello all, Here is an updated Lunar Lander. It is essentially the same but an untidy overwriting of the "Press [H|h] for help" has been fixed. LunarLander2v6.zip Cheers, Andrew |
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| capsikin Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 341 |
Here is a version based on your v6 and my new joystick library. It supports left, right, and fire, from the joystick (as well as all the keyboard controls already supported) LunarLander2Controllers.zip It's also supposed to support nintendo controllers once the library is debugged, I'll post updates on the library thread here: CMM2: Joystick / Games controller library Also I have another version of the library in the zip file that emulates the joystick functions (though not well) using inkey$, in case people only have a terminal keyboard instead of a USB-attached keyboard. I can give instructions for using that if needed. update: version with updated library 0.2, more likely to work with Nintendo controllers: LunarLander2Controllers.zip Edited 2020-08-11 22:18 by capsikin |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 847 |
Well done Capsikin, I'm not able to test the Joy/chuk aspects as I have neither but I'm pleased to see LL progressing. Cheers, Andrew Edited 2020-08-12 13:01 by Andrew_G |
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| vegipete Guru Joined: 29/01/2013 Location: CanadaPosts: 1099 |
There has been some nice work done to Lunar Lander 2! The sun on the lunarscape is really nice. I have embellished some more, resulting in LunarLander2v7.zip. I have amplified and wave-ified the "Eagle has landed" sound, added crumple landing and tuned the engine so it doesn't mis-fire. I changed the velocity gauges to linear ones and added a circular attitude gauge, all mounted in a sort of control panel. I also turned the bar & circle gauge code into more general purpose re-useable routines. Finally, I added a 'sudden unexpected violent disassembly' animation. ;-) ========== I have alas not done anything with Capsikin's controller library. That looks like a superb bit of work that I must study more. Visit Vegipete's *Mite Library for cool programs. |
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| bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2906 |
Hi Pete, all, What about side thruster animation (small jets left and right) and suitable sound effect? Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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| vegipete Guru Joined: 29/01/2013 Location: CanadaPosts: 1099 |
Here is an update to Lunar Lander. This version, number v72, adds an introductory screen. As usual, extract all five files to the same directory and run the BASIC file. Included are the 3 sound files and the single graphics file. Note to thwill: if I had a clue how, I would be happy to add this to the demo tape. But I am gitless... Visit Vegipete's *Mite Library for cool programs. |
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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3973 |
Almost missed this message, best to ping me on the Welcome Tape thread too. No worries about the update, I will sort it. Thanks for doing this, Tom Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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