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jcroach:
Teeter Torture!

New artwork engine in 0.107

Proper discrete sound emulation for Donkey Kong.

atog:
what does the new artwork engine do?  the old stuff looked good to me, can't wait to see it look even better.

never heard of teeter totter but I will check it out
Ummon:

--- Quote from: jcroach on January 21, 2009, 02:01:09 pm ---Teeter Torture!

New artwork engine in 0.107

Proper discrete sound emulation for Donkey Kong.



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Not only this, but the recent DK re-write seems to have affected game play, making it less predictable in places. Also, the colors are more accurate.

Similar things with Pole Position and PPII. Seems Mspac can be less predictable in places, too. I think there's other retro games I'm not remembering. Still, I mostly stick with .104 ......though I'm idly thinking about moving up in the next year or so, perhaps. New machine needed for that, of course.
jcroach:

--- Quote from: atog on January 21, 2009, 05:18:32 pm ---what does the new artwork engine do?  the old stuff looked good to me, can't wait to see it look even better.

never heard of teeter totter but I will check it out

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Teeter Torture is an Exidy prototype circa 1982.  It's one of the free, legal roms available from mamedev.org and damn fun!

I'm a little biased since I work on the project, but the new artwork is vastly superior to the old artwork. The new engine allows for higher resolution art and there's now an organized, systematic effort to buy, scan, clean up and preserve game art for use in MAME. Check out the link.
Ummon:
Oh, I forgot to mention Tempest isn't working properly, graphics-wise, though. The star pattern during warp isn't multi-colored, but instead only blue, which is a bummer.
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