Class of

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• mile

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  CKay wrote:

  
  anyway`s... strong joint, bit dizzy, probs talking shiiiite :) (again - ed)
  
  get`s stoat

  
  bit early for that sort of thing. :)
  
  *spills whisky on keyboard*
• CKay

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  Nahhh... 8 o` clock this morning was a bit too early though :D I was gone before, I nearly crumbled a Bourbon biscuit into a pipe, then two minutes later found mahself nearly eating a piece of dope... confusion :-o
  
  edit... I should be ashamed of myself, tut tut :( :)
• Arjun

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  CKay, I thought you'd given up all that for good??! :o

  Zero - A modern Spectrum emulator for Windows.
  Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
• CKay

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  I did, the drink :D not the smoke yet tho, just burnin` some braincells. :o
• Hungry Horace

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  good man... hehe.
  
  didnt know there was a speccy version planned. that would be rather cool i think!
• CKay

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  Page is here :-
  
  http://www.jmk1.freeserve.co.uk/ko99/klassof.htm
  
  
  it looks pretty awsome :)
• Tom-Cat

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  Wow, a lot has been done on this since I last saw that page. Go James ! :) This is gonna be one hellua game when finished. I will keep my fingers crossed.
• Ian Hamilton

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  Tom-Cat wrote:

  Wow, a lot has been done on this since I last saw that page. Go James ! :) This is gonna be one hellua game when finished. I will keep my fingers crossed.

  Except, calling it Klass of 99 is a bit of an anachronism at this stage. :)
  
  Necros.
  
  Five
• Jmk

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  Hi everyone.
  
  KO99 still lives on in the hearts of those who hope for it. ;-)
  
  Circumstances resulted in me stopping work on it earlier this year, then an opportunity arose to get graphics for Glove and that kickstarted that project out of hibernation.
  
  Glove is nearly, nearly finished (an inlay would be nice) so time for KO99 will be coming up.
  
  My programming style is much better these days, so Glove benefited greatly from the idea of prototyping the gameplay before going down to the 6809 and KO99 will go even further.
  
  My KO99 prototype contains the screen code from X128, so it actually simulates the use of both screens with only the dirty areas updated and the scrolling parts are achieved by copying from one screen to the other, just like it will work on the real thing (I hope).
  
  Also, using the prototype to do the gameplay is far better and quicker than just hacking away at some botched-up Z80 code.
  
  Other ideas are better like storing the map as a series of lightly compressed vertical strips instead of useless horizontal ones, using a string table, using a basic script to control the characters and doing all the screen code early on (the tile priorities were a nightmare).
  
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  And, yes, calling it Klass Of '99 is getting sillier by the year!
• CKay

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  Sounds interesting the way you plan to do it, I remember reading your page last year that if you hadn`t got it outa the way by the end of the year then you`d scrap it (shock horror) but then Tommy let me know you`d done a new game, so I was hoping you`d get back to Class Of, so this is brilliant news :D
  
  
  Enjoyed reading your blog on Glove too, needing an emulator then gonna try that out !
• monty.mole

  November 2006 edited November 2006

  Jmk wrote:

  And, yes, calling it Klass Of '99 is getting sillier by the year!

  
  Not at all. Just stretch it out for another 93 years and the name will be very appropriate! ;)
  
  Multi-generational games that will only get released one day by your great grandchildren sounds like the way the market is heading. Perhaps by the time we see Elite IV we'll actually have humans reach Alpha Centauri...