New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
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New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
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Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#2Slovak group GMG released a full featured FPS for 40+ year old computer (64kb of ram, 1.79Mhz 6502)
Features:
- raycaster engine running at 25 - 30 FPS
- animated textures
- lighting system
- destroyable walls
- automap
- 3 enemy types
- final boss
game is fully playable in Altirra emulator
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRd3MucaRoU
homepage: https://atari8.dev/final_assault
discussion: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/326709-final-assault-new-g...
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#3Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92K9wnk_4Cw
Pretty interesting but it's a little hard to make out what's going on sometimes.
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#4Slovak group GMG released a full featured FPS for 40+ year old computer (64kb of ram, 1.79Mhz 6502) Features: - raycaster engine running at 25 - 30 FPS - animated textures - lighting system - destroyable walls - automap - 3 enemy types - final boss game is fully playable in Altirra emulator video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRd3MucaRoU homepage: https://atari8.dev/final_assault discussion: https://atariage.com/f…
the FPS is really smooth - and the floating point (?!) calculations of the raycasting engine seem to be totally "on point" ?!?!
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#5i'm not surprised. atari 800 was an exceptional machine. great work on the game though.
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#6I was expecting a very basic raycaster, no textures etc. This is seriously impressive!
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#7Slovak group GMG released a full featured FPS for 40+ year old computer (64kb of ram, 1.79Mhz 6502) Features: - raycaster engine running at 25 - 30 FPS - animated textures - lighting system - destroyable walls - automap - 3 enemy types - final boss game is fully playable in Altirra emulator video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRd3MucaRoU homepage: https://atari8.dev/final_assault discussion: https://atariage.com/f…
the FPS is really smooth - and the floating point (?!) calculations of the raycasting engine seem to be totally "on point" ?!?!
Comment a bit of a limitation of the ray casting:
https://atariage.com/forums/topic/326709-final-assault-new-g...
simply amazing what they did. could you imagine if this came out in the 80s?!?!
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#8Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92K9wnk_4Cw Pretty interesting but it's a little hard to make out what's going on sometimes.
It's a bit unclear what's demoing visuals vs. gameplay. It seemed often that when the player reaches a corner, instead of turning the corner and continuing down the corridor the player would sometimes turn into the corner and wiggle. I wonder is there something about corners that's a bit janky or is that just a habit of this particular user that they sometimes just turn left and right randomly particularly in corners?
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#9I had an Atari 800 in the early 1980s. The games were close to the arcade version and with the BASIC cartridge we could write programs and save them to a cassette tape drive or floppy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family
Jay Miner was one of the main developers who later went on to be the "father of the Amiga"
Re: New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
#10I have so much respect for people that take on challenges like this.
It might be "useless" in a utilitarian sense, but I think of it as an incredible art form.