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my Boulder Dash Clones for the Atari and Mac
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:05 am
by Rocky
Hello!
I am happy to meet you.
Do you know about my Boulder Dash Clones for the Atari?
They are called "Boulder Smash".
The first Boulder Smash I made in 1993 for the Atari 1040 STE.
In 1995 a more colourful Boulder Smash I made for the Atari Falcon030.
These days I am working on a clone for the Mac.
It´s my first little game project for the Mac, so I am curious how things will be working.
Cheers ^^.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:52 pm
by CWS
Wow! Great!
I'm a Mac-user since 1992 and the only clone I've ever seen was BalderDoush (I even made new graphics, sounds and caves for this clone back then). It absolutely fabulous that someone finally makes a clone for MacOS X!
)
Can you post Boulder Smash? It would be nice trying it on the Atari ST emulator...
Boulder Smash for the Atari ST
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:41 am
by Rocky
You´ll find the Atari version in my Atari games collection:
Click here.
The early beta version of my Beta for the Mac:
Click here.
My Boulder for the Mac project makes me a bit confused at the moment: After including the 30th pict-resource, FBasic crashes completely when I try to build the .main.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:04 am
by CWS
I can not start your beta of Boulder Bash. Didn't you built it Universal Binary? I have a PPC Mac.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:11 am
by Rocky
That´s strange. It shuld be a universal, yes. It is probably compiled for MacOs 10.5 Which MacOs do you use? I have now made a version which should hopefully be working with >= Os 10.4. To verify if it is Universal please have a look into the Finders Info dialog box.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:41 am
by CWS
Ok, now its working.
But its veeeery slow. It runs jerky.
But nice!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:54 am
by Rocky
Oh, slow is bad.
Hold the Q-button to get more speed.
I try to make it faster, soon.
edit: a new and (hopefully) quick version is available. Press the "q"-key to switch to maximum speed; press the "n"-key to switch back to normal speed.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:08 pm
by CWS
If I speed it up all animations run too fast - and I can eat the fireflies...
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:19 pm
by Rocky
Okay, it needs a better timing for both, the ant and and the Enemies ... Say, how was it playable at normal speed ("n")? Mh, yes, you can eat the fireflies. I will see what I can do against that.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:23 pm
by CWS
OK, I'm playing in normal speed. It's better now in the new beta. But please - not Space for quitting. Should be Apple-Q. It's MacOS - not Windows!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:41 pm
by Rocky
Okay!
I wonder where the ant appears new when it had crashed. Will it rebirth at the last position, or will he rebirth at the starting square (the starting square is still missing)?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:51 pm
by CWS
Rockford always appears at the inbox position.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:22 pm
by Rocky
Ah, ok! - Another question: Do daimonds crush when a boulder falls on it?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:37 pm
by CWS
Yes!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:15 am
by Rocky
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