Posted By
Luca
on 2023-09-25
06:41:19
 |  New Puls4r project announced!
Via Facebook, Mad has publicly shown a tech demo about the brand new Puls4r project, which seems to connect the history line of Lykia - The Lost Island with his new 3D environment engine as seen in Whirlybirds. There's a runnable demo showing the Nora's 3D model rotating, and a temporary title of "Nora in Hell".
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2023-09-25
07:47:47
| Re: New Puls4r project announced!
Looks interesting 
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Posted By
Luca
on 2023-09-25
07:49:37
| Re: New Puls4r project announced!
Ah what a shame, I'm missed the main fact: it will be the first 256kB project ever from him.
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Posted By
George
on 2023-09-26
09:59:18
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3d animation with fillled polygons on the plus/4. Very interesting and challenging
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Posted By
Mad
on 2023-10-05
09:32:39
| Re: New Puls4r project announced!
For Plus/4 homies, another demo https://puls4r.de/downloads/norainhell3.prg I think the 3D (just blitting, yet) engine already is in a relatively good state.
Luca I am not sure if it'll be a purely 256k (or more) project, I think there'll be a 64k version, too. And Lykia had also an 256k Mode already, which somehow got pretty fucked up by some guys or infos, or maybe it's working like a charm, I don't know anymore.
If all goes well it's the final title "Nora in Hell" because the little girl is actually Nora from Lykia which got into Hell after they closed Kenz shop at Psytronik..
Have fun!
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Posted By
SukkoPera
on 2023-10-05
10:59:35
| Re: New Puls4r project announced!
@Mad: It's a bit OT here, but since you mentioned it, can you please explain what the 256k support in Lykia actually does?
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Posted By
Mad
on 2023-10-05
12:45:26
| Re: New Puls4r project announced!
@SukkoPera: It's somehow like a "Ramdisk", when the file was once loaded it is just accessed in the 256k memory / pages of the Hannes memory expansion, and not loaded again (if ram was sufficient and disc was not changed or something). It really was totally freaking hard to implement that, because you know, irqs and stuff.. But that's another story to be told..
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Posted By
SukkoPera
on 2023-10-05
13:57:40
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Ok, thanks a lot!
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Posted By
Murphy
on 2023-10-06
17:29:32
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Very exciting stuff you are doing, as always :)
Can you tell us about the technology and what the gameplay will be like?
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Posted By
Mad
on 2023-10-08
12:50:28
| Re: New Puls4r project announced!
Hi Murphy,
tech will be some sort of 3D world. I think in the end it will be fast enough. Just playing with some setup code currently nothing too noteworthy. Actually maybe that's interessting it will all atleast be filled polygons / filled sprites. I will post some more info later, if that is requested. Gameplay will be some sort of awkward I suppose, you know it's Hell and not an easy peasy "Stefan Mader" game like always. I started with the intention to really implement glitches as sort of a hellish and non pleasant feeling. Maybe the glitches will be not visible in the end. I dunno.. There will be a timelimit for the quest and I actually hate timelimits for myself a lot. Dunno what else to say.. Let's see. Thanks for your request..
But Nora will be well with all. She's some sorta tough girl where Hell isn't even worth a mention..
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Posted By
MMS
on 2023-10-09
15:37:22
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Indeed very nice!
I know I played some games beforehand with filled 3D verctors, but the ones really impressed me were the first Alone in the Dark and the Frontier on PC in 1993. Those filled (and even textured, lighted) poligons were kind of marvel at that time on PC, and my old (first) 286 16MHz with 2MB RAM had major troubles showing these games, even if the room in AIND was prerendered.
So what we see here on Plus/4 is pure magic Congrats!
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2023-12-07
08:36:47
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It's definitely changing It's very interesting to see the progress, I think we're all keeping an eye on this to see where it goes.
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Posted By
Luca
on 2023-12-07
11:46:38
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It truly looks like a brave attempt to something never implemented before on any 8bit machine, I wonder where it'll be capable to land. Keep it going!
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Posted By
Litwr
on 2023-12-08
10:45:59
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Wow!
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Posted By
Murphy
on 2023-12-08
11:55:47
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Mad: Great progress! I can't imagine what kind of project this will be yet, but you're the one who I can imagine can make it a great game.
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Posted By
Mad
on 2024-02-19
03:49:42
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Nora in Hell is discontinued.. Anyone including me can continue it but I stop doing this project..
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Posted By
Luca
on 2024-02-19
04:40:42
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Oh well, it would be nice to read an extensive description with its history step by step, about how it has been imagined and then coded. It looks like being a cool story to read about.
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Posted By
Lavina
on 2024-02-20
09:15:37
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That's sad news indeed... It looked really interesting and promising. 
Any particular reasons?
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Posted By
Mad
on 2024-04-03
23:41:35
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@Lavina I think I din't want to make this game in the first place. The angels of hell or hell beings learned some coding with me in this time of the creation of this "game". It was no fun at all to code this for me.. But a lot of new ideas and concepts.. Maybe there will be some stuff which is the result of the workings on that "engine" atleast it is cappable of doing rather complicated 3d stuff in very very limited memory.. Performance was not so much my thing..
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Posted By
Mad
on 2024-04-15
02:55:57
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All that stuff I wrote was very serious so to say.. But maybe there is the possibility to continue the game or include this part somehow in further Lykia projects.
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Posted By
Lavina
on 2024-04-16
09:22:02
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good to hear, indeed.
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