Monthly Archives: October 2012

Still examining locations in The Last Ninja

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

Funny how they re-used the shadow of the temple gate (encompassed in white below) in order to produce a pool of water (using colour overrides): Well, the same shadow is actually used 3 times (at least). Can anybody see the … Continue reading →

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TAPClean FE, libcbmhires, libtap

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

Updated TAPClean FE on my website. Also libcbmhires and libtap were replaced with way faster versions: libcbmhiresf and libtapf. The curious thing is that I needed libcbmhires for Integrator 2012 so I enhanced it but as I was at it … Continue reading →

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Discovering little things while editing

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

Funny how locations in The Last Ninja have been designed using more items than needed quite a few times. As example, at the river crossing the edge of the path that comes from below has been implemented using two path … Continue reading →

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Quickly progressing with the objects for Integrator 2012

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

As I had figured out the details of the information that’s inside an original Integrator file for the C64, I decided to adapt my graphic extraction tool based on libcbmhires so that I can just feed it a prg and … Continue reading →

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Integrator 2012 – Zoom 2X

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

As I realize the original screen renders as a very tiny rectangle with common monitor resolution settings nowadays, I decided to add a zoom option:

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Integrator 2012 update

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

Now keyboard cursor keys can be used too in order to move items around. Binaries at the links previously provided were updated accordingly.

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Integrator 2012 – preview available for Windows and Linux

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

I have now put together binaries for beta testing in order to get some feedback on the usability of the location editor. I suppose I will myself be using it quite a lot but if anybody is interested in contributing level design … Continue reading →

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Integrator 2012 under Linux

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

I had a go and compiled it under Linux as well. It looks quite nice there too: I’d like to get one step further and add a save option along with some more editing capabilities before giving it to the … Continue reading →

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Object browser was completed today by lunch time

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

Just an update on the object browser (used when adding a new element to the current location), that was finished today and looks quite nice!

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Last commit of the day

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Luigi Di Fraia

After work I decided to spend some time for an update to Integrator 2012. Here’s how it looks like now:

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