Ghosts of Galaxian

thesanman112 · Sr. Member

arrow keys to move, space to fire.

Q & A keys respectively to speed up and slow down game, please let me know of any bugs, I will be happy to fix....

http://file-pasta.com/d/1725.zip

1000101 · Hero

hrm, the sound was "broken" and the directional controls sometimes "locked."

Still Galaga clones are fun.

thesanman112 · Sr. Member

dont know....how fast is your machine?
I have a 1.6 p4 and it seems a little choppy on 1024x768 so I use 16 bit instead of 24....although bmp's are 24 so compiled with 24 bit screen mode instead of 16...

as for controls, Ive never had that happen yet, and Ive tried program on quite a few different machines....very strange..unless your computer is very slow..

thesanman112 · Sr. Member

are you using usb keyboard? I wonder if thats possible...

1000101 · Hero

I'm running a 1.8GHz AthlonXP. No, my keyboard is not USB (even so, there is no way that 1.2Mb/sec is too slow).

Lachie Dazdarian · Master

I'll never understand people using such high resolutions in programs which can't benefit from it on any possible way. I mean, 1024x768 for a simple Galaga clone?!? BTW, is this a complete product? No title screen, no documentation, no instructions. I would like some more info. Like what are the controls (in a proper doc, not in a forum thread), how many levels there are, is the game level-based at all, are there any powerups, etc.

The projectiles don’t seem to spawn from the right places. The right one doesn’t come out directly from the right cannon. The game felt fun, but I couldn’t play it much due laziness to change my Windows resolution and not such high speed the game run on my PC.

thesanman112 · Sr. Member

if I use say 640x480 and exit mm game, my laptop use's that video setting for windows,, and my screen gets cut back, its a very strange bug, but it happens....so I have to keep the games at the same resolution of windows?!?!?!?!

another problem I had was that at 1024x768 the sprites were to small, so I had to blow them up with paint, I may have forgotten about the fire bitmap.

To tell you the truth, I seldom finish anything,About half way through that program, I started with 'defender' Its engine is pretty much complete, it was a little more tricky. I should post so people can try it out, IT runs really fast, like original,, Very groovy what can be done with BASIC....

a while back I stared a universal setup program for controls, eventually I will include with all my software..all distributions will contain same setup, with maybe a cutom screen or two for certain stuff....still workin on them...however it does work for my flyer demo . It actually edits the system.txt file...I might try to figure out how to just use it as an include, or something along the lines of a SHELL IF NOT EXIST USER STAMP/NAME, then the user just keeps his personal selection and folder of my stuff and just downloads demo's to copy into same folder...That would be neat because users could just get a quick update for my stuff, May even be able to do directly over net. I just post that my server is online and updateing!!!! NAH!!!! just kidding!!!!

cha0s · Site Admin

What FB version? I did some work to fix that desktop trashing bug.

Deleter · Master

Who says the game has to run fullscreen anyway? I run most of my games windowed...I despise source that forces fullscreen >>

KristopherWindsor · Hero

Lachie Dazdarian · Master

I didn't mention my slow modem (actually, it’s not a modem) in this thread. And where I mention it, I don't blame the developer for releasing a big program. I just make a note that it will take some time for me to download it. I also have a limited bandwidth so...

Anyway, I was saying that this very game hasn't got a valid reason to use 1024x768 resolution. I see now that thesanman112 had to use it due the problems he's having with his laptop, but this proves my point. Things do look nicer in high resolution if they take the advantage of high resolution, wouldn't you agree?

thesanman112, did you try to add resolution change to 1024x768 before exiting the program.? This might help you during development, and when you finish the game you could remove this resolution change and "ship" the game in 640*480 resolution.

To be honest, when developing Poxie and my other games in 320*200 resolution, I was not aware that they might not work in full screen on some monitors. You are saying Poxie can't run full screen on your PC no matter what you do (even lower the Windows resolution)? Does 640*480 resolution work full screen on your monitor? I do plan to release LONG with Scale2X option, if not Scale4X. That is, if Adigun releases the new AFLib 2. But there is probably a stand-along routine for this in FB somewhere.

I just hope they will stop increasing resolutions. Really, there should be a limit for PCs. Oh, I so know that one day people won’t be able to live without HXGA.

srvaldez · Sr. Member

unplayable for me, way too fast.

thesanman112 · Sr. Member

i should build a fps sub to keep it around 30-35, I am using a 1.6mhz, but I amagine on a 3 gig or better, or actually 533 bus or better and framerate could climb way above 60fps...

SSC · Sr. Member

Looks and plays good, but too fast on this computer, p4 3.2ghz.

TbbW · Sr. Member

if it's windowed and you want fullscreen then press: ALT+Enter
it's hardcoded into FB to switch between window and fullscreen with that key combo... ( you cant disable it even if you wanted to )