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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by Scouter3d » Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:21 am

Hi,

the latest version works fine on real hardware (a bit fast for my humble old self...)

I personally would prefer to play it with the controller in hand (A=Up, W=Right, D=Down, X=Left) but also works like it is
I also would still prefer a joystick driven game, as the membrane keyboard is not the best (in other words baaaad) , is often broken and is not really fun to play on real hardware :0)

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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by ArugulaZ » Tue Aug 27, 2024 12:37 pm

Should I infer from this that the joystick still doesn't work properly? Nanochess modified the compiler to address this issue.
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by Scouter3d » Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:07 pm

Hi,

sorry my bad, i did not even try the joystick...

but i can confirm it works as it should !!!!!

Cheers, TOM:0)
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by nanochess » Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:18 pm

I'm glad to know I finally made the joystick to work properly in diagonals :)
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by ArugulaZ » Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:31 pm

Whew! That's a relief! Very happy to hear that.
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by Mobsie » Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:58 am

Thats what i wrote some days ago, just peek the zero page value!
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by MADrigal » Sun Sep 01, 2024 9:25 am

@Arugulaz - please post the 'final' release for CreatiVision when ready and let me know if you are happy for it to be distributed it via the CreatiVEmu website (ROMs page). It would be great to also have a 'readme' file in the package.
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by ArugulaZ » Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:11 pm

I guess it's already ready already. And yeah, I'm okay with you distributing it... like I said, I wasn't planning to get rich from this game, because that's just not going to happen.

As for a README, I made full-blown instructions for two of the versions of this game. If I knew what a Dick Smith/Creativision instruction booklet looked like, I could make one of those, too.
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by MADrigal » Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:47 pm

Are both versions posted here on this thread? Can you pls point me to the files?
As per creativision booklets... well, you have access to scanned versions of 99% of the existing game booklets on the CreatiVEmu website - section 'Releases database/Software' - it would be nice to have a simple 'Readme' in the same style of writing :-)
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Re: New game! Whack 'Em Smack 'Em Byrons

Post by ArugulaZ » Thu Sep 05, 2024 6:55 am

Here we go, a nice shiny README file for those who need it.
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