Working with Vide

Actually – for a change – working with Vide, at least if you programmed it yourself is:

a) kind of fun

b) showing opportunities for small but “rewarding” additions

Here a few that are done and will be available with the next upload (sometime this week):
YM-Editor

• YM Channel swap
  I added buttons to the ym-editor to swap channels – that was usefull to me, since the ym files for frogger had their voices all over the place. Most of the time only two voices were used by the music – but the channels were not consistent.
  In order to play music in two channels and have one channel for my SFX, I had to change the ym files so that for the music only the first two channels were used. You can do something like that with a single mouseclick now.
• YM Amplitude change
  Likewise – amplitude settings of these files were sort of “messed” up.
  With the additional buttons displayed in the image, one can
  a) “shift” (double or half) the amplitude of a channel
  b) “multiply” with a given number (double, with result converted to 4bit int)

Vecci

• Remove point
  (see image above)
  When selecting two connected vectors, you can now chose to “eliminate” the middle point.
  While editing the objects in Frogger I quite often used that new feature.
• Split where needed
  allows you now to edit the “need” value (befor it was always fixed 127)
• Switch Orientation
  (See image below)
  When selecting a vector, you can now (easily) inverse its orientation.

Tracki

• added “delete” button
• added display of “current” cycles
• added “ignore” to unrealistic values (e.g. other “main-loops” with different compare values)

Regi

• added output of current cycles count
  While often that is not usefull, sometimes it is – since dissi allows you to reset the value, it is often faster to just “look” than to type “c” [RETURN] in dissi 🙂

… and other diverse bugfixes.

Frogger
Is also progressing nicely… In short following things “changed”…

• added a few music scores (not all yet – though)
• added sfx and the ability to play them while the music is playing (not finished, only sfx added right now are “lane death” and “jump”), but as a proof of concept it works nicely
• edited several “sprites” again
• the crocodile and the snake were given some more frames, animation is more smooth
• added score (after all) to the game, which is displayed all the time – all levels still within 30.000 cylces
  (including ingame music, sound effects and score display) – the score display (positioning, printing and calculation) uses pretty exactly 1500 cycles
• I probably won’t be able to also show level and life information – well, one cannot have it all
• I also have to do some more testing on the real machine to confirm everything is still working ok

Regards

Malban

Addendum:

Current version – with strings as scores.