This seems to have slipped under everyone's radar, but CNGSoft has been working on a CPC conversion of the Spanish Spectrum game Duck Out (http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/blog/blog13.htm):
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And here's a YouTube video that he uploaded back in February:
Preview of "Duck Out" for CPC (20150223) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dupJ5r-hKGA#)
A game that stars a cartoon duck that batters enemies with a frying pan has to be interesting! :laugh:
Looks fun. Nice sprite design. Never seen the Spectrum game til now.
Will Elmer Fudd feature in the game? :)
even unfinished its miles more fun than count duckula!
strange that the original instructions had the CPC tape & disc listed...
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/d/DuckOut.pdf (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/d/DuckOut.pdf)
Woooo! Looks lovely :) Wish they disseminated information a bit more so we could've found out earlier...
Quote from: Lazy Dude on 11:21, 06 May 15
even unfinished its miles more fun than count duckula!
But surely it cant touch Count Duckula 2? I think that is a CPC masterpiece.
Yeah 1 was good 2nd was shit ,'scuse my French
It's been one million years since I last posted here (university is a harsh mistress) and I'm positively surprised to find this thread!
That video is a bit out of date, however. This one's newer:
"Duck Out" @ CPC - 20150504 - YouTube (http://youtu.be/9kqOQp5rCks)
The music (recycled from "Justin") is a placeholder, I'm still waiting for proper tracks to be written, because I'm no musician :( But well, at least the game is now faster than on the Spectrum (how could they somehow make it slower on a machine with half the VRAM size escapes me) and more complete: the original had no scoring, no sound, no music... several things I discovered during the development of the port (for example, unused graphics) suggest that the original game was badly rushed and released.
EDIT: I kept editing the post because the video link kept getting mangled ???
You achieved a great framerate. Congrats.
The game seems very enjoyable.
Reminds me of the suprizingly enjoyable Dinamic game Sgrizam , but better looking.
Looks interesting, you should use that music, its really nice :)
Experienced composer with the AY-chromosome, happy to help out with any chiptunes 8) sugmonkooky.com.
Quote from: Sug Mon Kooky on 07:34, 02 June 15
Experienced composer with the AY-chromosome, happy to help out with any chiptunes 8) sugmonkooky.com.
"AY-chromosome"? I've seen more intelligent spammer bots... Now I'm not sure. Is this legit or not?
Oh well. "Duck Out" was indeed featured in RetroMadrid 2015:
(http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/18526495126_7544EF5206_H.JPG)
EDIT: a more reliable link of the same photo is http://www.flickr.com/photos/grupousuariosamstrad/18526495126/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/grupousuariosamstrad/18526495126/)