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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : New CMM2 Game: PanzerDuell
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| joker Newbie  Joined: 06/02/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 33 |
Hello Friends, After some experiments with a CMM2 Assembler and the fascinating Nunchuks, I started a small game which should be a refreshing and entertaining programming holiday together with a friend. It should just take a week, I thought, but it turned out differently. We haven't seen us for quite a while so we talked so much about past times, that we hardly wrote any lines of code. Eventually, I did it alone and it became my most ambitious project for the CMM2.  A small one-2-one battle game - for 1 to 4 players - fully configurable and dynamic player settings - multiple maps for each player setting - a particle engine for special effects - a fully destructible environment - and a cunning robot opponent for single player matches You can find the source on GitHub and further information and pictures in the PanzerDuell Wiki. Let me know your opinion and also any bugs you may find. By the way: I added also some more in game pictures for my other games: Fort Micromite: Fort Micromite Wiki Air Rescue: Air Rescue Wiki Furthermore, I invested in a screen capturing device, so that you can expect gameplay videos in future, but first I have to learn how this works. Stay tuned. Have fun and a nice time Matthias |
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LeoNicolas Guru  Joined: 07/10/2020 Location: CanadaPosts: 549 |
Great Job Matthias I love to see new games coming to the CMM2 games base. |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5538 |
Matthias, Very interesting, I am going to pull out the cm2, to Try all 3 games, that I was unaware of. Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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Plasmamac Guru Joined: 31/01/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 598 |
A cmm2 assembler ? Plasma |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5538 |
The game Plays Nice, the intro screen graphics are sublime. It asks for some practice to get used to the combo keys (left/right rotates the turret,forward plus left/right rotate the tank. Nice game. Good sound. Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| joker Newbie Joined: 06/02/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 33 |
Yes, I tried to program an ARM assembler in MMBasic. The project get stuck and is only able to encode approx. a dozen mnemonics and address types. And for these the code is alredy huge. My method needs heavy rethinking. Therefore I used the time for a new game. Best Regards Matthias |
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| Plasmamac Guru Joined: 31/01/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 598 |
Hahaha , i try it also but for the picomite🤣. Such like the Monitor from the commodore plus 4. with the intension To implement ASM statement into basic such like powerbasic. Stuck in the moment because i have not much time unfortunately. Gtx Plasma |
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TomSchimana Newbie Joined: 27/08/2023 Location: GermanyPosts: 2 |
Hi Matthias Found your game PanzerDuell today. Really well done and you can tell a lot of love went into it. I'm working on my first game too. After trying a few things, I figured out that music and sound effects work best with MOD files. That's what you used as well. Last time I worked with trackers was back on the Amiga, so like 35 years ago  So I'm wondering how exactly did you do it? Any specific software? I saw that one MOD file is the music and another one has the sound effects. Are the sound effects simply uploaded as instruments in there? Would be great if you could give me a quick rundown. Thanks Tom |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5538 |
Other games have used MOD files where the first 4 tracks are used for music. And 16…31 for sfx samples Then you can independently play music, looping. And at random times play an sfx sample. On Some games there is a second MOD file with only the sfx samples. In case the player decides to play the game without music, but does appreciatie the sound effect. Volhout Edited 2025-12-01 07:41 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1331 |
Hi Tom I feel the same way. I was still quite good at it in the early 1990s. But first we have to remember that. Rarely no MOD use all possible 32 sample slots. As Volhout has already described. In addition to the instruments, you also load samples for the sounds into free slots in the mod file. Protracker or similar software is your friend. You just have to remember the slot numbers for the sounds. In the program, you then use the “PLAY MODSAMPLE” command to play them. Unlike the Amiga, mmbasic can play more than 4 Voices simultaneously, so that the music or individual tracks are not interrupted. The mod files with only sound, has no playlist. This means that you hear nothing when you call “PLAY MODFILE”, but the silent module is still played in the background. The sound for your program is called only via “PLAY MODSAMPLE” and you hear the sfx without Music. Good Luck and have Fun. Cheers Martin Edited 2025-12-02 06:48 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| joker Newbie Joined: 06/02/2024 Location: GermanyPosts: 33 |
Hello, So, the guys explained it already quite well. Only two things to add: 1. Up to now I only use music for the intro and focus on sound effects in the game. But you could do both as Volhout and Martin explained it. 2. To create the file I use Milkytracker on Linux. An ancient tool in a modern environment but it works fine. Cheers Matthias |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1075 |
I loaded panzerduel from GitHub. I placed it in panzerduel directory. I had 1 error where the code looked for desert.raw but file is dessert.raw that I could fix. I still have this. Is it some config file I need? Error in inc/settings.inc line 12: Could not find the file. regards Gerry Edited 2025-12-07 21:11 by disco4now F4 H7FotSF4xGT |
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| TomSchimana Newbie Joined: 27/08/2023 Location: GermanyPosts: 2 |
HI Thanks for explaining. So just to be clear: with a MOD file that has music and SFX samples, there's no way to turn off just the music and keep the sound effects? Means I'd need two separate files if I want to give that option? Can't test this myself yet since I don't have sound on my CMM2, but speakers are on the way. Planning to work on the soundtrack for my game over the holidays. My Asteroids clone is pretty much done. Everything's vector based including the fonts, collision physics works. Just missing proper sounds and a highscore. Tom |
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| Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1331 |
Hi Tom yes, you have to create a 2nd MOD without a Playlist with just the Samples. To make things easy, take your Modul, save it as "Silence.mod" ,delete all Playlists and save it again.  I dont own a CMM2, but You could test it on MMB4Windows which should be CMM2 Compatible. Cheers Martin 'no comment |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5538 |
Hi Tom, Attached ZIP is work in progress, but it has 2 mod files, one with SFX and the other with music and SFX, both are Martin.H's work. It is not finished at all, but already playable. I develop for PicoMite, but fixes have been included to run on MMB4L and CMM2. But I have not tested such myself. rocks15.zip Anyway,, you can use it to look how the mod file sample playing works. Volhout P.S. This code is a real community project, many have contributed. I won't name them all but if you search for "rocks" on the forum you'll see. Edited 2025-12-17 01:32 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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