The map format is very weird,
This is a shame, because I have 1000's of original BD caves.... mayby more than EM! But apparently BD,BD2,BD3 and BD-Construction Kit all use different map formats!
Unlike R&D maps where each tile is an element, BD's has things like box drawing functions...
Amazingly, somebody has decoded it:
BD level format
and..
more level format stuff
C64 BD level format
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That second link seems the more informative one... also, when I googled for Boulderdash, the original was the top link. ^_^ (After Martijn's MP3's and Alan's old graphics, I was looking for the sounds to wrap it up. I like the 5th link... a clone of Dig Dug?) I recognize Peter Broadribb as one of the 1995-2000 contributor sets. Heck, he's even got a C program for dumping the original BD file format as human readable text.
*is typing this as I'm reading*
The file format is almost like instructions for making it in an editor... it's even got a equivalent of RnD's dice button.
Hmm... there's an incompatability, "extra" diamonds (I assume over the limit you need) are worth different (usually more) points that regular ones.
Wow, there's a lot of stuff to dig through here. There's some much information I'm starting to get scared...
*is typing this as I'm reading*
The file format is almost like instructions for making it in an editor... it's even got a equivalent of RnD's dice button.
Hmm... there's an incompatability, "extra" diamonds (I assume over the limit you need) are worth different (usually more) points that regular ones.
Wow, there's a lot of stuff to dig through here. There's some much information I'm starting to get scared...
It is a lot of info!
Had a good look at some memory dumps of various BD games... And I'd say about 75% of them are BD-Construction kit format!
This format is not documented very well, but it looks like it doesn't use any shape drawing functions, just nibbles..... this is good!
I have about 520 Boulderdash games, each with about 16 caves (some have much more). It would be nice to have this part of History in R&D.
Fortunately I had made some caves using BDCK back in the old days... so If I converted these first, I'd know if it worked right.
As for tying everything up, yep that's what I was going to do.. original graphics,sounds,music and 8000+ caves
Had a good look at some memory dumps of various BD games... And I'd say about 75% of them are BD-Construction kit format!
This format is not documented very well, but it looks like it doesn't use any shape drawing functions, just nibbles..... this is good!
I have about 520 Boulderdash games, each with about 16 caves (some have much more). It would be nice to have this part of History in R&D.
Fortunately I had made some caves using BDCK back in the old days... so If I converted these first, I'd know if it worked right.
As for tying everything up, yep that's what I was going to do.. original graphics,sounds,music and 8000+ caves
OK, just wrote this little program that can display original BD maps from C64 memory dumps. I'll do the R&D export later.
You can scan through the memory looking for maps if they are not in the default location, some custom hacked BD games might do this.
The 3 games supplied all work out of the box
Load a c64 dump, and press "add" to see all the caves in a game...
Holger, have you written something like this or did you get the original BD levels from another source?
ConKit (Win)
*edit*
oops, dead link
You can scan through the memory looking for maps if they are not in the default location, some custom hacked BD games might do this.
The 3 games supplied all work out of the box
Load a c64 dump, and press "add" to see all the caves in a game...
Holger, have you written something like this or did you get the original BD levels from another source?
ConKit (Win)
*edit*
oops, dead link
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HerzAusGold
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I'm about writing a loader for the C64 BD ConstKit Format.
If it's ready it's only a small step for a ATARI loader.
A test prog with converts the levels to a text file is still ready.
Special thanks to Guido who send me some assembler dump, which I can figure out the exact format very well.
If it's ready it's only a small step for a ATARI loader.
A test prog with converts the levels to a text file is still ready.
Special thanks to Guido who send me some assembler dump, which I can figure out the exact format very well.
And the answer is ... 42 !
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HerzAusGold
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It's now ready. BD64 and ATARI (Nibble format) native loader.
Look here:
viewtopic.php?t=957
Have fun!
Look here:
viewtopic.php?t=957
Have fun!
And the answer is ... 42 !