Scramble (arcade game remake)

[RokCoder]

Well done! Really reminds of the old days. What I'm missing is a guide. How do one shoot back?

By the way, my favorite game back then was Captain Comic. But I never made it to the end. 

I've added the control keys into the frontend attract loop. I tried to keep it accurate to the original with the exception of "press space to play" but I think displaying the control keys is a reasonable enough alteration from the original to add    I've not heard of Captain Comic before. I had a quick Google and came up with a NES game. Looks like a lot of fun! Looks like you can relive your childhood fun online now at https://playclassic.games/games/platform...line/play/

[aurel]

Hey Rok

Marcus - author of NaaLaa made Lemmings

http://www.naalaa.com/community/showthre...t=Lemmings

so what you think ? is there a way to make Lemmings in QB64 ?

[mnrvovrfc]

Might be doable along the lines of this hidden gem:

https://acmepjz.github.io/meandmyshadow/

That game gets hard quickly LOL. Even with the tutorial I would have to smash my laptop keyboard. :/

There was this game I picked up as module for Porteus Linux which has penguins instead. It took me a while to remember and find it:

https://pingus.seul.org/

The central idea, to re-create this is to have a "search history" that is created by the protagonist (player), for the other members to follow along.

[Kernelpanic]

Well done! Really reminds of the old days. What I'm missing is a guide. How do one shoot back?

By the way, my favorite game back then was Captain Comic. But I never made it to the end. 

I've added the control keys into the frontend attract loop. I tried to keep it accurate to the original with the exception of "press space to play" but I think displaying the control keys is a reasonable enough alteration from the original to add    I've not heard of Captain Comic before. I had a quick Google and came up with a NES game. Looks like a lot of fun! Looks like you can relive your childhood fun online now at https://playclassic.games/games/platform...line/play/

Thanks! This is Captain Comic:



I played for hours but never made it to the last level. Unfortunately, these old games no longer run on new Windows versions.

[RokCoder]

Hey Rok

Marcus - author of NaaLaa made Lemmings

http://www.naalaa.com/community/showthre...t=Lemmings

so what you think ? is there a way to make Lemmings in QB64 ?

Most of that page returned as php errors for some reason. But as for Lemmings in QB64, I can't see any reason why not. I can't see any reason why pretty much any retro game can't be made in QB64 really. Other than finding people willing to put the time into doing it

[RokCoder]

Well done! Really reminds of the old days. What I'm missing is a guide. How do one shoot back?

By the way, my favorite game back then was Captain Comic. But I never made it to the end. 

I've added the control keys into the frontend attract loop. I tried to keep it accurate to the original with the exception of "press space to play" but I think displaying the control keys is a reasonable enough alteration from the original to add    I've not heard of Captain Comic before. I had a quick Google and came up with a NES game. Looks like a lot of fun! Looks like you can relive your childhood fun online now at https://playclassic.games/games/platform...line/play/

Thanks! This is Captain Comic:



I played for hours but never made it to the last level. Unfortunately, these old games no longer run on new Windows versions.

I got the right game then I think. Did the link I sent for the online version not work for you?

[aurel]

Other than finding people willing to put the time into doing it

yes i agree ...but i am not very good in QB64(Is not my primary compiler)

and this Naalaa source i will see if i can get it.

[mnrvovrfc]

Thanks! This is Captain Comic:

(video)

I played for hours but never made it to the last level. Unfortunately, these old games no longer run on new Windows versions.

If you have a Linux distro to hand you could probably run this game in Dosbox, if the game was for MS-DOS or was created before WindowsXP became the rage. Wine instead for WindowsXP.

Could do this with a live CD/DVD but it's kind of hard to find one that carries Dosbox and few of them support persistence...

[Kernelpanic]

@RokCoder - I got the right game then I think. Did the link I sent for the online version not work for you?

On the site, all I see is the startup screen, hear the startup melody, and then that's it.

My favorite games to date is Age of Empires I + II. It still work under Win 10. It's a pity that they weren't further developed. . . Yes, I know the new versions on Steam(?). The buildings are great etc. but I want it on my computer. With AoE, I have always design my scenarios myself: as complicated as possible, and hit it! Always for victory.

Very good games are also "Cossacks European Wars" and "Cossacks - The Art of War". Unfortunately they haven't been developed further because they contain some stupid bugs. A pity! 

[RokCoder]

@RokCoder - I got the right game then I think. Did the link I sent for the online version not work for you?

On the site, all I see is the startup screen, hear the startup melody, and then that's it.

My favorite games to date is Age of Empires I + II. It still work under Win 10. It's a pity that they weren't further developed. . . Yes, I know the new versions on Steam(?). The buildings are great etc. but I want it on my computer. With AoE, I have always design my scenarios myself: as complicated as possible, and hit it! Always for victory.

Very good games are also "Cossacks European Wars" and "Cossacks - The Art of War". Unfortunately they haven't been developed further because they contain some stupid bugs. A pity! 

How very strange. And you're running Windows 10? What browser? I've never had a problem with DOSBox for this type of thing and that's just an online flavour of the same.

As for AoE, I loved it as well. I have the new version but it just doesn't appeal the same way. I loved that style of game from way back with Dune, through warcraft, command and conquer, etc, etc.