Moon Patrol (running on Uzebox - Atmel AVR)

[altgeeky1]

Nice reproduction. I'm seriously tempted to build one of these now.

FYI - Hands down and by far, the soundtrack to the original Moon Patrol was -years- ahead of anything else at the arcade. It's pretty clever how they managed sound and graphics on Moon Patrol and Robotron:1084... you can find articles on it if you want to nerd out.

[knabbers]

do you know how much of the processing power this is using up?

that is ridiculously good for a little 8-bit AVR!

[claycowgill]

@knabbers As I recall (it's been a while) if the video/sprites/audio took 100% of the available raster time that left you with ~21 lines in vblank to run your game.  Given the clock speed that works out to around a ~2.3MHz AVR that's 100% free for running your app. The best part though is that the kernel handles all that audio/video/controllers stuff transparently by interrupt, so you write the game code in 'C' and it "just works".

[knabbers]

@claycowgill yeah that's exactly the structure i'm using for my very tiny console :)

[RABBIDGamfan]

This console's sound hardware has a pretty unique sound to it. It's somewhere between an NES and an Amiga.

[LucidScience]

Looks like a good reproduction, nice one.

[learnerDSP]

Good work. which Screen is used in this project.

[claycowgill]

@learnerDSP That was mode 2 (supporting split scrolling regions) which I think I used four regions. (Score at the top, top mountains, foreground mountains, ground.) I used a couple sprites at the top of the foreground mountains to partially occlude the mountains in the distance to enhance the parallax effect.

[dirkovic2112]

nice work!