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- From: FRACYON@dirac.physics.jmu.edu (Ali Fracyon)
- Subject: Re: Remember TEMPEST? Does it exist for the atari?
- In-Reply-To: mwtilden@math.uwaterloo.ca's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:43:13 GMT
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- In <C1Iow4.Fz4@math.uwaterloo.ca> mwtilden@math.uwaterloo.ca writes:
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- >
- > I've always wanted to get the old arcade game TEMPEST for my ST. It
- > was an old vector-monitor game popular in the 80s where you went
- > through a variety of shapes blowing away baddies that came up at you.
- > Very stylish. You can still see them around some of the arcades. Don't
- > know if the atari can handle the speed or not but it's be great to
- > see. Could be handled entirely by the mouse. Something I'd definitely
- > pay shareware costs for, maybe others would too.
- >
- > Is all.
- >
- > --
- > Mark Tilden: _-_-_-__--__--_ /(glitch!) M.F.C.F Hardware Design Lab.
- > -_-___ | \ /\/ U of Waterloo. Ont. Can, N2L-3G1
- > |__-_-_-| \/ (519)885-1211 ext. 2454
- > "MY OPINIONS, YOU HEAR!? MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
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- I wrote an Amiga version of it for the June 1992 issue of Compute!
- (AmigaResource)
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- If you can program in assembly, it should be easy to move it over to the
- Atari.
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- It doesn't use any Amiga specific libraries and the only thing you would have
- to do is make atari display 3 384*384 bitplanes (can be converted to 640*400
- by changing 2 constants), rewrite the code that uses the blitter to
- draw lines, rewrite the lines that start the sound playbacks, remove
- the code for the title/demo screen since it uses the copper to display more
- than 8 colors, replace any entry and exit codes, and the lines that
- read the mouse port.
-
- Unfortunetly, the only Ataries I see are on TV (Some "business school"
- shows some lady learning wordprocessing on a ST) so I can't do it myself.
-
- p.s. The code belongs to Compute!, you should get their permission before
- changing it.
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