Category: Our Retro Games
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Atari ST STOS Basic Grief Game Dev Diary #1
Introduction In this video I am going to describe some of the decisions and algorithms I am using to create my STOS game, Grief, Grief is a classic arcade variant inspired by the arcade game Gorf, but it is not a port. The first level started with tutorials I was…
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7800 – Orion Assault -beta
Beta version of the Atari 7800 experiment can be played online or downloaded to play on an emulator from the links below:Play online:JS7800: Atari 7800 Emulator (raz0red.github.io)Download ROM:https://forums.atariage.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=1068178&key=14333a41e42244a3bf4f521ae984dff6 Watch video of gameplay:
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7800 – Last Stand Halloween -beta
This experimental project for the Atari 7800 can now be played online, or on your Atari 7800 emulator. See the video below that, or play it ant the link below that, or download the ROM at the link even lower. Play it online here: JS7800: Atari 7800 Emulator (raz0red.github.io) Get…
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Atari ST STOS Basic #3: Speeding up Sprite Rendering: Make a thing!
In this, the third in our New Make A Thing! Series on Atari ST STOS, we are going to experiment with 6 different methods to display and move a 27 sprite invader formation on the ST screen. We will start with Basic ST sprites, move through various pre-shifting strategies and…
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Beginning Atari ST STOS BASIC #2: The Screen and Tiles
In this series we will look at STOS Basic for the Atari ST. This program was designed as a game creation programming language but sometimes has been mistaken for a construction set, which it is not. In the preview episode we look at STOS Sprites Hi and welcome to Beginning…
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Beginning Atari ST STOS #1 Sprites. MAKE A THING!
In this series we will look at STOS Basic for the Atari ST. This program was designed as a game creation programming language but sometimes has been mistaken for a construction set, which it is not. In some previous videos I have gone over what utilities come with STOS and…
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MAKE A THING! Atari ST Boulder Dash Construction Set
In this first episode of a new series, called MAKE A Thing, we attempt, to the best of our ability, to pick up Boulder Dash Construction Kit for the Atari ST and make a Pac-Man like Game. This is complicated by the fact hat I know almost nothing about Boulder…
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STOS Scramble Port #1: STOS CODE Optimizations
By Jeff D. Fulton Yesterday I posted this video to youtube. It’s a progress report on my Atari ST port of the Arcade game Scramble to the ST using STOS. In the video I list a two optimizations I found to speed up code and rendering, especially in the interpreter,…