just like me and a lot of people, not everyone uses windoze as operating system (iām 95% gnu/linux, 4% osx, 1% haiku/aros/bsd/plan9/openindiana, 0% windoze/reactos) - and it is quite difficult playing such game (that seems amazing for what the video shows) using wine, that doesnāt assure us accuracy and compatibility enough
i think there is one lua-based fantasy console that supports flexible display resolution, like changing to 160x144 - i forgot which one is (for sure isnāt TIC80)
iām getting use to develop for z80-based hardware using Borielās ZX-Basic Compiler, and Sega GameGear one of them
GameGear has the same display resolution, and i guess itās simple to create 4-colour games there
iām struggling to develop for GameBoy directly because its cpu more based on 8080, and iām struggling to avoid using z80 opcodes that are not used on GameBoyās cpu
the idea is, as soon as i can (or someone can), to port the GameGear version to GameBoy
btw, another great source of colours sometimes arranged as palettes is chromapost.net, i guess you might enjoy a lot spending some time around there as well
thanks, and you mentioned a good observation as well, but iād see it from another perspective, like keeping the 16 colours, and having, for example, like the 5 colours (0x00 to 0x04) from somewhere from colourlovers as first colours kept intact, and the colours 0x05 to 0x0F as a mix from these first colours, as randomly or sequentially mixed - i think that routines that could do that arenāt that difficult to code (i coded something like for sdlBasic or Python-Pygame around 10 years ago, that i have no idea where i have it! :D )
you donāt need to stop developing, the coolest part of it is sharing its sources! (it is what iāll do! :D - i just need to get the code a bit more mature for that, and very sadly i was too tired in these last weeks for that... :( )
and please donāt get me wrongly, lospec is really a very valuable palette resource information, and itās a pleasure for me the eventuality of helping them anyhow! :)
iām going to code my own converter, soon iāll share the sources here around! :)
(iām about working on 2 formats, create and debug - create would be based somehow on other trackers, like vortextracker, milkytracker, etc., and debug based on .tic)
talking about Delphi, did you try Lazarus as well? and consider also trying Free Pascal Compiler (specially for command-line based tools)
i didnāt know that some part of .tic specification documentation can be found at https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/RAM (specially the sound/music part) - i need to try it for confirming
which kind of information (specification) is stored in the chunk 14? (0x0E) - and how the information on the chunk 3 (cover) is stored? (btw, sfx and waveforms might need to be documented as well) - would be really great having the whole .tic format specification documented! :) (i'm aware how toilsome is to document anything, perhaps we should start a wiki page somewhere and keep improving it voluntarily and progressively? )
btw (i donāt know if it is the same situation), when we open a .tic file somewhere, it creates a ./.local/ folder in the same directory - wasnāt supposed that tic80 would create and/or use something like ~/.local/share/tic80/ instead?
here is the bash script i used - https://pastebin.com/raw/RimUU0ek - it is called from the makefile in the same directory (which is simply "a:;./example01.sh" :D )
since itch.io doesnāt allow attachments in forums like this, i donāt know if links from tinyupload can be used instead: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=00911342737639708775 (please ask or suggest me better file hosting services if needed, like googledrive or dropbox, if this one doesnāt work or isnāt appropriated enough)
the idea is about creating .tic from external editors or ides like what we see existing from other fantasy consoles (like pico8?) - and see that iām not misregretting the default TIC-80 editor, itās really neat!!!! :)
the code seems to run fine (pressing shift+f9 from geany) - but there i was expecting the sprites getting stored (not used from the code), but nothing happens - and the tracker frames (i donāt know the exact name of that, they are shown all ā00ā in all 4 channels, just browse around) gets messy and way larger than expected
perhaps working as a kind of "projector" having the .tic embedded later (like generated from "cat projector_binary game.tic > game_binary_with_game_tic_embedded") - would be great having it available in a quite good range of operating systems and cpu architectures! ;)
- Sega Master System legacy display modes: http://www.smspower.org/Development/Palette#MasterSystemMarkIII - "000000".."000000".."00AA00".."00FF00".."000055".."0000FF".."550000".."00FFFF".."AA0000".."FF0000".."555500".."FFFF00".."005500".."FF00FF".."555555".."FFFFFF"
- SGI Irix 4DWM (used on those known vectorial icons around early 90ās - https://darkdoomer.deviantart.com/art/da-motherfuckin-irix-icon-set-179568520 ) seems also a great palette, i guess itās something like "000000".."FF0000".."00FF00".."FFFF00".."0000FF".."FF00FF".."00FFFF".."FFFFFF".."555555".."C08080".."80C080".."808040".."8080C0".."804080".."408080".."AAAAAA"
there might be more interesting palettes around, like that one MojĆ³n Twins used on their ula-plus zx-spectrum games: : http://www.mojontwins.com/juegos_mojonos/subacuatic/ - - "000000".."00006F".."902500".."6F00FF".."00B56F".."0090FF".."FF9000".."B5B590".."000000".."0000FF".."B54A00".."B54AFF".."6FFF00".."6FB5FF".."FFFF6F".."FFFFFF"
iām starting to get it, the track "banks" (i donāt know the name of that) shouldnāt be '00' (and that isn't there in the documentation) - anyway, i tried to start copying by hand some VortexTracker documents content i had around (some converted stuff from ay-3-8910 and sn76489 vgm files! ;D - at least for now, for testing ) and it seems to work (only seems to be counterproductive having to retype everything...)
i donāt know if anyone tried to open .tic files from emulationstation or retropie - if someone did it successfully, please help us know how to this..
iām trying to follow the information from https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki#music-editor about trying to start to compose something, but iām struggling a lot even on registering a note there - where from can we find better information?
(sorry being so blunt asking this, but iām really struggling a lot...)
you mean "no way" or "not yet"? and since .tic files stores music information, couldnāt that information be extracted somehow? (since itās not that difficult, for example, to convert .vgm files into .mod, i wonder how difficult would be doing the same from .tic)
