Building Defender w/o Hydra?

Dan Taylor

What do I need to change in the programming if I want to build the Defender game with just the Propeller Demo Rev G along with the keyboard and the display?

In the program it looks like in several places that·this is possible.

Thanks for all of your help!

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Dan Taylor

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Hi Dan,

The "Software Guide" link on this site:
www.warrantyvoid.us/tiki-index.php?page=Tutorial

Should have a listing for Defender (IIRC) -- I don't know if the keyboard interface might have been sacrificed for NES controller in my conversion instructions. Give it a shot.

OBC

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Dan Taylor

I am a little confused with this...
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So are all of these programs written for the Demo board? Or is this just a list of all the games? Or is this a program that converts them?
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Thanks for the list though, Its great!

[noparse][[/noparse]Edit]: I did not see the Index PDF. That explains everything very clearly. Thanks you very much!



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Dan Taylor

Post Edited (Dan Taylor) : 5/6/2009 6:29:11 PM GMT

Dan Taylor

Ok... So the display is working great. But the problem now is that I don't have the gamepad. Is there anyway I can change it to the keyboad controls?

Thanks for any help!

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Dan Taylor

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Try this...

USE_KEYBOARD               = 1
KEYSPIN                         = 26 

In the configuration block you are using.

OBC

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Dan Taylor

But there is nothing even mentioning a keyboard in the program. By the way I am looking at Donkey Kong right now.

Where is the configuration block?

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Dan Taylor

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

I don't believe there is a keyboard control in Donkey Kong.

OBC

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Dan Taylor

That is my question, could I switch the control from the game pad to keyboard control?

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Dan Taylor

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

You'll need to use the "combokeyboard.spin" program (if there's enough memory)
and change the controls in the program code to read from the keyboard instead
of the game controller.

Not an easy challenge. Did you check the original thread for Donkey Kong
to see if this was addressed at some point during creation?

OBC

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Dan Taylor

You're right. There is not enough memory...

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Dan Taylor

potatohead

Go visit your local thrifty. Game pads are almost always there. NES / Atari / Genesis are getting harder to find among the PS1, Dreamcast and older Xbox controllers tho. Still, you should be able to give it a go for a coupla bucks. Just make a custom plug, to avoid not having the connector and call it good.

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