ESB Update...?

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I seen to remember that was a thread on here that someone was expanding the gameplay on ESB, to involve star destroyers as well.....

Am i wrong or??
 
I have no experience when it comes to vector, but the programmers really pushed the technology back in the days, so you never know... Maby btheres some loopholes to make it work??....
 

YES YES YES, that's it !!!!!

GEEEEZ, he did make some great progress !!!

Can you imagine playing THAT in a SW cockpit !!!!

Even if I had to hook up a PC to do it, I would !!!!! (And I'm a Mac guy ;))

Did you see those Ties exploding yoo-hoo, I wonder how the Amplifone would handle that !!!

(uhh, to make it clear, the whole thing WOULD have to be able to run on a real vector monitor of course, and the Amplifone is the fastest and most reliable out there....)
 
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I contacted him awhile back and he said it was always envisioned as a MAME hack only, but I can't see why it couldn't be modified as a ROM hack of some sort where one of the programming gurus in our hobby like Clay, etc could produce a kit for like ESB. ...I know I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
 
Wait a minute, you say this guy is only changing/(re)creating this in software only that runs on the original hardware ?

I highly doubt the original hardware can handle this much vectors at such speed ?
 
It would never port to a vector board. It's created with a game version of basic (Dark Basic) for the PC. It's a raster game. The code for it, is probably 15x to 100x larger than would fit in the ROM memory space on the Star Wars board set. 150% incompatible.

You can wire up a PC with a Raster monitor and crank up the brightness. It would probably look okay, as I have seen a MAME'ed Star Wars cockpit with a raster monitor that looked excellent.
 
It would never port to a vector board. It's created with a game version of basic (Dark Basic) for the PC. It's a raster game. The code for it, is probably 15x to 100x larger than would fit in the ROM memory space on the Star Wars board set. 150% incompatible.

Yeah that's what I thought. Maybe it's raster, but it does look like he's doing everything with wires using coordinated so in that sense it should be possible to make a real vector game out of it.

...as I have seen a MAME'ed Star Wars cockpit with a raster monitor that looked excellent.
Now don't start saying silly things Scott.....
 
Don't think he ever finished, and progress has been slow as its very much a side project for him with a young family and career going on. I hope he does finish, as I'd enjoy it on MAME at the very least. Vector ROTJ is how it should've been!
 
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