DSB can do that!

Remy · Post by **Remy** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:19 pm

So, after a very long night, I decided to take a peek at all the new rendering code that Sophia has lua-ized. While poking through the files, I realized something that I should have realized awhile ago.
Anyway, after about an hour of playing with bitmaps and writing some code, I came up with what is perhaps the worst translation of Pong! ever, but it's entirely done with Lua in DSB, so it's a very ugly proof test that DSB really can do alot more than just dungeon crawling.

DSB Pong

Joramun · Post by **Joramun** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:57 pm

That should convince everyone...
For those who might ask, other mini-games are in the making

Post by **Sophia** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:54 pm

So, basically, you're using the modern enhancements of a clone of a 20 year old game in order to create a graphically enhanced clone of a 30 year old game.

Nice work though!

Remy · Post by **Remy** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:21 pm

So, basically, you're using the modern enhancements of a clone of a 20 year old game in order to create a graphically enhanced clone of a 30 year old game.

Yep!

I knew I should have included the mummy and screamer cheerleaders...
"Rawr! Rawr! Rawr!" "Scree! Scree! Scree!"

Post by **Sophia** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:23 am

Hehe, and this was useful for another purpose: it finally exposed a bug in my sound channel management code that, based on the age of the bug report that it finally addressed, must have been in there for a very long time!

Remy · Post by **Remy** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:20 am

Whew. I thought that sound error was something I was doing wrong...
By the way, this is completely off-topic, but in the forum sticky about the dsb_* functions, dsb_stopsound is mistyped as dsb_soundstop (the only reason I mention it now is that it was one of the ways I tried to fix the problem).

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:28 pm

Sophia wrote:So, basically, you're using the modern enhancements of a clone of a 20 year old game in order to create a graphically enhanced clone of a 30 year old game.

My head a splode.

Joramun · Post by **Joramun** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:44 pm

Ahah ! I knew the sound problem I had was a bug !
(almost every sound was followed by a low buzz,
like when... well, the sound bugs...)

Post by **Sophia** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:50 pm

Hmm, the problem that I was having (and fixed) was that the sound would cut out after a few minutes, especially when a lot of sounds had been played. (It was a easier to reproduce in the pong game because it played the same sounds a lot more often)

I'm not sure if that has anything to do with a buzzing!