Ruff 'n' Tumble on Atari STE? Wow...

[AnachronyX]

https://twitter.com/keithclarkcouk/stat ... 2619494401

[stormy]

That looks great!

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Incredible! Wonder if they are using Doug's agtools for development?

[Cyprian]

looks cool and sounds cool

[AnachronyX]

And he made Shadow of the Beast intro too...

https://twitter.com/keithclarkcouk/stat ... fcmIMpAAAA

[Cyprian]

@AnachronyX STE version of SotB looks cool

[MegaSTEarian]

Looks great.
Amy I wrong when I am thinking that developers should consider the existence of 4MB RAM and a "hard disk device" sort of standard in a way to improve music and graphics?

[joska]

The video shows the game running on an emulated STE with 0.5Mb RAM, which is quite impressive However, I agree that it's not much point in making sacrifices to sound/gfx just because of RAM-issues, there are probably no STE *in use* today with less than 1Mb. I would guess that most of them has 4Mb.

Incredible! Wonder if they are using Doug's agtools for development?

Not so sure that this game is *that* technically advanced on the STE. The graphics and animation is really good and I'm surprised that it runs on 0.5Mb, but there's not that many and/or big sprites on the screen and scrolling is pretty much free on the STE. So by all means not easy to make (far from it!), but IMO well within the STE's capabilities with "normal" coding.

[AnachronyX]

Not so sure that this game is *that* technically advanced on the STE.

That fast and smooth scrolling seems pretty advanced to me

And it looks like a lots of work was done.

[joska]

First of all, I don't think he's actually making an STE-version of Ruff'n Tumble. The Twitter post says "placeholder graphics from Ruff'n Tumble".

Secondly, scrolling is "easy" on the STE, including fast and smooth like in this example. Even fast scrolling requires relatively small amounts of data being copied per frame. But again, I'm not saying that what we see in this video is easy to implement, but it is within the capabilities of the STE without resorting to the kind of wizardry you see in AGT or demo productions.

[sporniket]

Looks great.
Amy I wrong when I am thinking that developers should consider the existence of 4MB RAM and a "hard disk device" sort of standard in a way to improve music and graphics?

I don't know for other devs, but for the time being I want to target the configuration that I had at the time (1 MB though). Not that I require more for now . Later (wayyyy later), I will want to take advantage of those 4MB that I have on my current real STe. About the hard drive, I am not in a rush to get one too, probably because I don't need more than one 360KB worth of data.

[DarkLord]

After all this time, and considering the user-base has changed, I would
go with:

1 meg RAM minimum - 2-4 megs of RAM, add extra features.

Mass storage device - expected.

Compatibility with TOS v2.06 and up - expected.

And please make software accelerator compatible - a lot of people have
accelerated machines these days...

[mlynn1974]

Nice one! It looks very nicely done. The graphics and animation are very good.

[DarkLord]

Oh! The game looks really great too...

[retropassionuk]

It seems only in the last few years people are seeing what the STE could have done, i'm just happy we can no experience this today!!

[calimero]

This is 50Hz?
Ruffle on Amiga is 25Hz...

[elliot]

This looks sooooo good. Looking forward to it.

I am sure there was a survey done here some years back about the RAM size for STE users, I think most where 4mb (something like in the 90%ish). I would also guess most would have a HD facility too now (but not sure).

Okay if a game fits in half or one meg then great but I (personally and being selfish here) would prefer you spend your dev time making it better rather than smaller/compatible for use on a few machines - this is a legacy which has haunted ST (and other platform) users for many years! Remember all the games that were on single sided disk and for half meg ST when you invested in a 1mb STE! I mean, how hard was it to test if you had DMA sound and play the samples there rather than on the YM with massive frame lose! I am looking at you Lemmings 2, Flood, Speedball 2, etc, etc, etc (not that I do not appreciate/enjoy the games - but still).

[metalages]

Back then a lot of ste were 1mb using floppies. Mine is 2mb with a hxc floppy emulator.

[Orion_]

my game Escape 2042 runs at 50 Fps on STe, hardware scrolling + blitter makes it "almost" easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEo9V6zCZeY