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"Computer Space" Sim / Clone Not available On This Site Anymore
DaredevilDave:
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When I left this forum years ago it was for specific reasons. I still don't like what I see here, all the old members and good community attitudes are gone.
Howard_Casto:
Projects is more for hardware stuff, so you put it in the right place.
Yeah I'm quite interested. I mentioned 3d printing a mini computer space cab the other day and complained that I couldn't find a good sim to put on it. It'd be nice if the Linux port would run on a pi. ;)
DaredevilDave:
I'm pretty sure it would (linux), but not familiar with the pie. As long as the specs are decent. I'd actually be happy to send you a very early build just to find out.
I'm hoping to find someone here in the SF Bay Area that has a machine I can maybe look at or even record audio from. I don't wanna swipe any audio from other people's work, so not sure where to turn there yet. Short of that maybe I can find someone here with a machine.
There are a few Youtube videos of the original game being played, and the video is routed straight from the machine. In other words it isn't somebody recording the screen with a camera. So I can use this to look at getting proportions correct, speed of the ship, how far missiles fly, how fast ship can rotate.
The video
I swiped the background starfield image from the video and cleaned it up. So I have the original background already.
I'm thinking of three view options:
- Fullscreen no border
- with a monitor bezel, slightly smaller play field.
- with part of the fiberglass cabinet visible, small playfield.
You could toggle between them using a TAB menu I think. I want to make any buttons and stuff like MAME.
I'm going for single player for now.
I'm having a rotten day (people, ugh!) so I think I will work on this today.
Here is a link to an existing simulator of the game. My only game play experience is from this.
http://www.computerspacefan.com/NewCompSpaceSim2.htm
Cool, I needed something to do for the rest of the day.
ETA:
I also want to add any (optional) bloom, scanlines or other visual effect that will help make this look like it is being played on the original hardware.
raph:
This article might be useful to you, lots of pics and stuff. https://edfries.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/fixing-computer-space-3/
pbj:
--- Quote from: raph on August 18, 2017, 05:17:41 pm ---This article might be useful to you, lots of pics and stuff. https://edfries.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/fixing-computer-space-3/
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Interesting read, thanks for posting. I shook my head at some of it but you can't argue with his results.
:cheers:
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