Jet Set Willie

In those Norman´s screenshots, I think it´s our Willy in his miner days, no top hat yet. 🙂

I understood the meaning of the phrase, but I thought Norman actually meant Willy is covered with the fine flour in this latest version. 🙂 By the way, I cut off Willy from one of the last screenshots in this topic to upload it here, to show Willy´s flour covered looks, but I got just this error message. 1 file was larger than the maximum file size of 0kB, and was skipped My file was about 1.6Kb .png-file. I tried again by save´ing it as .bmp, about 36Kb, but the same happened again. The same happens either by choosing the file or dragging it.

Interesting "Spectrum" computer indeed. 🙂Thank you, I had wondered how many kilobytes it would need to have 256x192 resolution without colour clash.

Thank you! 🙂 In side by side comparison, Spectrum version strongly suffers from colourclash. The BBC version looks like a 16-bit demo, minus halved horizontal resolution, especially the last one with flashing colours. 🙂

Welcome, Lemmy! I haven´t tried your game, but the colours and blocky pixels look nice. 🙂 I would like to point out just one thing. Compared to the background, Willy´s black clothes are quite dark. I´d suggest to keep the background colour as is, but to make the clothes just a tiny bit lighter, to make them stand out from the background better. But, as I haven´t tried this, maybe there´s no problem when Willy is moving. 🙂

Hi Hervé, nice to see your answers! After reading them, I think you are able to help me at least in some problems, even if you can´t help me with memory differences between 48K and 128K. 🙂 I will send you a message next, attaching one file to check. 🙂 You´ll then see what´s the problem.

Thank you for Amiga games Martyn, and others.

I wanted to have some animation in the background, POKE´ing to videoram, that was too slow. I didn´t then bother to test how many sprites I could have moving fast enough. I don´t have time to learn assembly anymore, unfortunately. 🙂 Except some small bits with JSWED. 🙂

Here´s one page from the book "Where´s Woody Willy ". 😉 Please take a look, how many Willys you can find! 🙂 The ones you are not totally sure of, does not count. My "sure Willys" count is 13. I may have found them all, but the rule is rule! 😊 Here´s the original topic. 🙂I thought to start a new topic, as not everyone might notice it.

Yes, that´s a problem, at least to me. Back in time I found an MSX compiler from the web and I thought to make a game. But some things I wanted were still too slow. 😑

I took another look at this Where´s Willy. Among 13 I had found I can see now two possible Willies, but now I can´t find that "impossible" pixels Willy! 😮

Wouldn´t it be nice, if Basic speed could have been 1000%? 🤪😍😬😖😋🤩😁😛

Thank you for the good looking screenshots! 🙂

Try to find them, the ones you are not totally sure of, does not count. I have currently found 13 Willies . 👏 It´s my own rule, so this does not count, but I had found 14th one, too, it´s not a totally clear Willy, though. But while doing my countings, I noticed that technically it must be, as it has few "impossible" pixels there. But without machine specifications knowledge, my score is 13 Willies. 🙂 Try to find more! Including that "impossible" pixels Willy. 👍

Here´s my interactive MSX lineshow, you can press space to add black lines. You must keep pressing to add them, it wouldn´t be much interactive otherwise. 😉 I tried to bring the program as a text file here, but only half of Notepad´s output had any sense. Open Office fared a little better, it showed 193 pages of garbaged program, 😄mostly just garbage. At the beginning of the text file, among first readable words Open Office managed to print were Boot error Press any key for retry 😂😂 [Edited] Open Office must have dug up those words from MSX-DOS´ code. A good achievement actually. 🙂 I´ll attach a disk image here to try. 🙂You´ll find it at the end of this reply. Load it by typing RUN"LINESHOW.BAS" CTRL and STOP to break to Basic. Stop pauses the scrolling when you list the program, also pauses a Basic program during running it. Breaks the scrolling of the LIST, too. You might want to first redefine keyboard to find CTRL and STOP on an emulator. 😉 To list a certain line, eg. 20, type LIST 20 To list certain lines, type eg. LIST 20-100 To list certain lines from or to LIST 20- or LIST -100 Next a little teaser from the new book Where´s Woody Willy? 😉 An answer page below. 🙂 Not really, but try to find all the Willies from the Where´s Willy page above. 🙂 Lineshow.dsk

Thank you, Digital Duck. 🙂 I thought to ask, as I thought it might literally mean something more than just good luck. One never knows without asking. 🙂 UncleWan, why not download the latest JSWED and give it a try someday? 🙂

I am using [, too. 🙂 Hervé, you might then be the person, who could help me with my problems with the version [. If you have time, and if you want, of course. 😌 Here is the link to my topic, if you want to take a look.

Thank you for asking! I´ll have a go later. 🙂

Thank you! Happy New Year and the year of the snake to you, too! 😊 I didn´t have a thought what snake related I could draw, but luckily you saved me with your Great picture, thanks. 😉 By the way, what there exactly reads in chinese? My chinese is a bit rusty... (cough) 😄

Yes, but I was thinking that 12K is enough for a little colour lines show. 🙂

Thank you for the good creation report. Have a nice creation moments! 🙂

Spider, I meant this: 50 C=C+1:IFC>15THENC=2 can be shortened to 50 C=C+1AND15 I didn´t remember if the needed operand was AND, OR or XOR. 🙂 I had to try first. Thank you again for the BBC Basic examples. I like BBC Basic. 🥰

Thank you! 🙂 The latter video looked near the MSX, there would appear some blocks here and there, though. 🙂 This program will work on MSX, too, with just a little changes. Change lines as 10 COLOR,1,1:SCREEN 2 Colour front,back,border. Numbers between 0-15. Screen mode 2 is a high resolution mode. 20 C=2 Colour 0 is transparent, 1 is black, thus 2 (green). 30 X=INT(RND(1)*256):Y=INT(RND(1)*192) 40 LINE-(X,Y),C This will start the line where the last one finished, x is 0-255 and y is 0-192. The full command is LINE(startX,startY)-(finishX,finishY),colour LINE(startX,startY)-(finishX,finishY),colour,b Will draw boxes. LINE(startX,startY)-(finishX,finishY),colour,bf Will draw filled boxes. DRAW is a macro-language command. You can type the coordinates there as Mxcoordinate,ycoordinate (typing BM does not draw the line from the last finish point) but you can´t use variables as coordinates inside DRAW command. Perhaps it´s possible, I haven´t tried this fully, but I don´t think so. 50 C=C+1:IFC>15THENC=2 This line can be shorter, but I forgot to try it how it works. 50 C=C+1 OR 15 but maybe it was AND or XOR instead or OR? Should 15 be 16 instead? 🤔 [edited] 50 C=C+1AND15 🙂 The starting value of C won´t be 2 anymore after it had reached 15, though. If someone can share short piece of Basic code to fix this, I´d be glad . 🙂 (not a big problem, you can also change background colour) 60 GOTO 30 Why dont´t you use 20K mode on the BBC? 🙂 You will get four colours with better horizontal resolution. On C64 Simon´s Basic could be the answer to your problem. 🙂 C128 should have a very decent Basic?

Not at all. 🙂It´s nice that you share info. 🙂 I didn´t know that about Super Mario or what Spider said about Outrun.

Hi, welcome back! 🙂👍 Great that you still want to make a new Willy game!