Metal Slug (Mission 1) port for Atari STE - Completed

[manicx]

Is there anyone else who got an Atari STE with TOS 2.06 , and can't get it running? Autoboot, AGT loads everything, black screen and nothing more.

Runs fine on my STE with 2.06. Not sure what's the reason. I use ultra satan with PP driver.

@masteries, do you intend to support Jagpad? It would be great to have 3 buttons support through a Jagpad connected to the Atari. No customized pad or anything. There are a few games supporting Jagpad and play nice, r0x zero is a good example.

[masteries]

Customized pad is not only useful for these new incoming STE games, as well useful for new ST games to come.

As well it is compatible with classic games too; also as 3 button with Commodore Amiga 500 / 500 Plus / 600, ZX Spectrum and Atari 8 bits

[masteries]

I am thinking in a keyboard+mouse buttons; due to autofire is enabled by default the first button will not be over-used.

With this layout, plus the gamepad layout, it will be possible for anyone to play these games with decent controls.

[manicx]

I can insist that more people with STEs have jagpads and would prefer that to a modified joypad or keys/mouse combo. Jagpads can be bought for peanuts from the US, although taxes can apply. I bought mine for 20 euros including the tax. And it works out of the box, no modifications. Just plug and play.

There's a descent list of games using the jagpad.

http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_at ... 8_S_G.html

I am sure it can also be implemented fairly easy.

[masteries]

I can insist that more people with STEs have jagpads and would prefer that to a modified joypad or keys/mouse combo. Jagpads can be bought for peanuts from the US, although taxes can apply. I bought mine for 20 euros including the tax. And it works out of the box, no modifications. Just plug and play.

There's a descent list of games using the jagpad.

http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_at ... 8_S_G.html

I am sure it can also be implemented fairly easy.

Despite the JagPad is an horrible gamepad...
and it is only supported by STE / Falcon

As long I reviewed AGT´s JagPad support, these are not read based in an IRQ filled queue.

There is only polling support for JagPad, that means, you will lose many button presses of the JagPad;
unless you create an almost constant polling, that is a CPU overhead, not possible with current fire&forget code implementation.

[sporniket]

The proposed solution has pros and cons, and the most important facts is that it is proven (implemented in the Metal Slug port), and that it is available here and now.

[Philsan]

Could you please support this 3 button joystick standard?

https://github.com/ascrnet/Joy2Bplus

It's an easy modification and there's a lot of support for it on A8. Even a new Atari-SNES controller supports it.

[lastic]

Having received my 3 button gamepad now, I didn't realize that it needs to be connected to Joystickport 0 .
It works perfectly, I still suck at playing but that's for me to get better

But out of interest ,is there a technical reason why it needs to be connected to Joystickport 0 instead of 1 since 0 is where my mouse is connected normally ?

No criticism , just curious.

[Cyprian]

Having received my 3 button gamepad now, I didn't realize that it needs to be connected to Joystickport 0 .
It works perfectly, I still suck at playing but that's for me to get better

But out of interest ,is there a technical reason why it needs to be connected to Joystickport 0 instead of 1 since 0 is where my mouse is connected normally ?

No criticism , just curious.

Port 0 supports two buttons (mouse buttons), Port 1 only one

[frost]

The Atari ST joystick port 1 has only one fire button input. The mouse port has two (two mouse buttons). See here.

[masteries]

Update March 2022


-Fixed a coding bug that produces hang up of the computer, when you were driving a vehicle, and the vehicle died in midair

-Added an additional executable (nogpad.prg) for players that do not have 3 button gamepad, useful if you want to use the keyboard



Remember that the third button is done via UP and DOWN combination at same time,
its a trick performed inside the gamepad


Download link:

https://www.gp32spain.com/foros/attachm ... 1647869522

[FlorKendall]

wow !!!

[ragnar76]

Not my kind of game but it is really impressive. Good work!

[masteries]

I released the first beta version of Metal Slug port for Megadrive / Genesis


The console and computer line (Atari STE) development is now unified,
both shares 90% of code



Download link at the video description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDpg9luIOtM