Reinventing the Wheel - Latest Comments

Re: DSTROSMASH!

namuol — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:39:49 -0000

I wanted to address some of the design problems with the original -- specifically that it's very possible to play indefinitely. I wanted to make it so games typically ran on the order of minutes. Every *6000* points you get a new life. I'm glad someone is as big a fan as I am to notice such details! Cheers!

Re: DSTROSMASH!

Kronos — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:17:15 -0000

Greetings and Hail! Great coder. I must tell you that as a child, Astrosmash was my absolute favorite game to play. You've done an incredible job transferring it to the DS medium. May I suggest that the only differences I noticed are:
In the original, every thousand points scored landed you another ship increasing the quantity as shown above, the 2 times I've played it so far I didn't get extra ships. My last comment would be that there was an "Auto-fire" enable command which fired off a consistent shot repetitively without having to squeeze the side triggers of the original controller.
Again, amazing job. You've made my day!
-Kronos

Re: Still here…

Cheesy McCheesePants — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:22:39 -0000

*comments*

Re: DSTROSMASH!

namuol — Sat, 28 May 2011 13:05:13 -0000

Thanks for the writeup! I have to ask though -- are you sure it was on the Colecovision that you first played ASTROSMASH! ? The only remake I know of was actually for the 2600 -- the irony being that ASTROSMASH was originally meant to be an Asteroids clone to compete with the 2600's most successful action game. :)

Oh and by the way, let me know if the game works on your 3DS with an R4.

Re: ArchLinux + Cherokee + Wordpress

namuol — Sat, 28 May 2011 12:54:02 -0000

What's the specific error you're getting?

Re: DSTROSMASH!

3ds homebrew — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:30:31 -0000

WOW! Excellent! I used to love this game as a kid. Downloading it now to give it a try!

Re: ArchLinux + Cherokee + Wordpress

Thierry — Fri, 27 May 2011 04:37:22 -0000

Hi, cherokee doesn't start at boot
I put @cherokee at Deamon in rc.conf, but it fails with a permission issue
I there a way to permit my user to start cherokee on boot?

Re: DSTROSMASH! v1.0B Released

namuol — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:51:53 -0000

Oh, and I can't blame you for doubting that I'd read your comment... I never update this site anymore. Heh.

Just out of curiosity, how did you even find the game?

Re: DSTROSMASH! v1.0B Released

namuol — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:50:25 -0000

Thanks! That comment -- all on its own -- makes it worth my while to have created it. Cheers!

Re: DSTROSMASH!

namuol — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:46:34 -0000

What sort of hardware are you running it with?

Re: DSTROSMASH! v1.0B Released

Biglord O Xerife — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:33:35 -0000

Dude, I don't know if you're gonna read this, but I'm friggin LOVING this! Props for creating such an awesome remake.

Re: DSTROSMASH!

Digger Baber — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:51:46 -0000

it gets stuck and dose not load

Re: ArchLinux + Cherokee + Wordpress

namuol — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:53:12 -0000

Hmm. Most likely there's a missing behavior rule in your Wordpress vserver. It seems to be applying the "default" behavior which is "static content".

If I were you, I'd try removing your wordpress vserver configuration from the cherokee-admin interface and creating a new fresh one which should ensure you have the necessary rules enabled for PHP to work properly.

Re: ArchLinux + Cherokee + Wordpress

Timmy Turner — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:01:26 -0000

Hi, I've got a big problem with PHP. It won't start up. When I call up the install.php it downloads the file and doesn't open it in the browser window. Do you got a solution for this?

Re: NDS Homebrew Made Easy

namuol — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:02:26 -0000

Yeah, there has been an influx of updates in the past few weeks. I have a buildbot set up to catch these updates but I haven't been at my computer every day to update the version numbers in the URLs.

Everything is fixed now :)

Re: NDS Homebrew Made Easy

Muon — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:12:49 -0000

By the way, there are newer versions of libdns, wifi and default arm. This should be fixed.

Re: NDS Homebrew Made Easy

Craig — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:55:37 -0000

gracias por el estupendo script!!!

Re: DSTROSMASH!

namuol — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:31:43 -0000

It was on my TODO list for a while, but I got tired of not finishing the game so I crossed it off the list.

I don't consider the current version of DSTROSMASH to be final, so you may see it in the future. ;-)

Re: DSTROSMASH!

Shadow666 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:53:50 -0000

Will u add the secret mode that was on the original game to make it like asteroids?

Re: DSTROSMASH!

namuol — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:00:24 -0000

Thanks! Yeah it's not a "perfect" clone, but I was trying to improve the game's responsiveness (it's rather sluggish on the original INTV) by remaking it; for that the project was a success.

As for emulators, no; at least not on the DS.

There are a PC few emulators, including a nice commercial package by the Blue Sky Rangers (who are now the legal owners of most Intv games; they're a good company who cares about the INTV, so it's in good hands):
http://www.intellivisiongam...

If you're looking for a good free emulator, I would strongly recommend "jzIntv" ( http://spatula-city.org/~im... ) but I hear that "Bliss" (http://bliss.kylesblog.com/) is a good competitor.

I was actually considering porting jzIntv to DS since it's open-source, but I'm putting that idea on hold until the official "Intellivision Lives" pack is released for the DS (if it ever comes out):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

It sounds like what you're looking for, but don't hold your breath (for an official emulator *or* one from me, hehe).

Re: DSTROSMASH!

None — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:08:01 -0000

Fantastic! But is it possible to emulate the Intellivision with all his games?

Re: NDS Homebrew Made Easy

oliver — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:28:23 -0000

Thanks for the script - works great. A small addition: I've modified the Wine alias to use a separate config directory, so that no$gba is started with pristine Wine settings:

alias nds="env WINEPREFIX=$DEVKITPRO/wine/ wine $NOCASHGBA/NO\\\$GBA.EXE"

Re: NDS Homebrew Made Easy

namuol — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:25:19 -0000

Sounds like a good idea. Send me an email: louis.acresti@gmail.com

Re: NDS Homebrew Made Easy

Isa — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:05:50 -0000

I'll love you forever if you work with me on a mac compatible version of this.

Re: ArchLinux + Cherokee + Wordpress

namuol — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:13:44 -0000

Let me know if you run into any trouble; I intend to write convert this to a Wiki page and cover a few different CMSs on top of WP.