Author Topic: Space Trader (Read 17178 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #90 on:** August 12, 2007, 06:18:00 pm »

lol i didnt even saw it

thanks

pugboy · « **Reply #91 on:** August 30, 2007, 07:54:00 am »

Funny how I had no clue this was being made... I started this EXACT same project (somehow) without seeing any Space Trader like games... Drat, I thought it was going to be a first

. Anyway, good luck with the project! See mine at http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=7083

Xphoenix · « **Reply #92 on:** August 30, 2007, 09:39:00 am »

But the Windows one doesn't have the cheats of the Palm one %)

pugboy · « **Reply #93 on:** August 30, 2007, 12:51:00 pm »

THERE ARE CHEATS!?!?! Wow, I need to look those up... It is also odd that I implemented cheats (the secret...) and had no clue about them in the Palm game...

Delnar_Ersike · « **Reply #94 on:** August 30, 2007, 03:25:00 pm »

Hmmm, cool pugboy. However, my version of Space Trader is more like Tradewinds in Space with a couple of twists than the original Space Trader for the Palm OS. I'll have to try it out sometime...

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #95 on:** August 30, 2007, 05:41:00 pm »

any progress btw? %)

Delnar_Ersike · « **Reply #96 on:** August 31, 2007, 03:48:00 am »

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QUOTE (DJ Omnimaga @ 30 Aug, 2007, 21:41)

any progress btw? %)

I think you got the answer to that question on IRC: :oops:

Short answer: No.

Long answer: the only areas where progress has been is some optimizing of snippets of code and writing down a couple of stuff on paper.

Agenda: Because of the stuff I am planning, I have to reorganize the pictures in which the ships are displayed. After that, I'll modify the code as well and then continue on with the encounter engine (I purposefully didn't say battle engine). So far, I'm about 5% done with the pirate encounter engine.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #97 on:** August 31, 2007, 08:55:00 am »

well my bro got a car accident ysterday so i didnt got home for very long, thus i may have missed your line sayin this on irc sry

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #98 on:** September 20, 2007, 05:16:00 pm »

I hope it is still under works

Delnar_Ersike · « **Reply #99 on:** September 21, 2007, 03:58:00 am »

Well, I have added a couple of extra ship sprites to the already existing 5, but these ships will only appear as enemies. They are:

Alien Mosquito (equivalent to Scout)
Alien Hornet (equivalent to Fighter)
Alien Raptor (equivalent to Battlecruiser, though it only has 15 guns)
The Dragonfly (if you've ever played the original Space Trader, you'll know why this ship is so special)
The Obliviator (my invention, it's kind of like a Corvette with as many guns as a Frigate, but uses drone ships)
Bottle of Captain Chuck's Nutritional Whiskey (this is no joke, you'll actually find a couple of these during your travel if you are lucky. People who have played the original Space Trader know that it's risky to drink one, as you either gain a skill point in a random skill or lose a skill point in a random skill)

I have also made a couple of minor optimizations as well (about 150 Bytes).

Progress Speed of this Project as of now: Snail

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #100 on:** September 21, 2007, 11:27:00 am »

ahh nice stuff

, at least I'm glad this isn't dead

Liazon · « **Reply #101 on:** September 21, 2007, 02:23:00 pm »

are you going to show us the sprites?

and like DJ_Omnimaga said, snail > dead

Delnar_Ersike · « **Reply #102 on:** September 21, 2007, 04:24:00 pm »

I might be able to, but it's going to be very hard. You see, I don't think I told you guys, but the fan for my laptop fried a week ago, and because of a couple of technical difficulties concerning my dad being abroad until October, it is now 5 people (my 2 brothers, my mother, my grandmother, and I) to 2 computers. My older brother has his own computer, but he doesn't let anyone other than him use it, so technically it is 4 people to one computer.

What is even worse is that this computer is a Mac laptop with a faulty RAM stick, so this basically means the computer freezes every 5 minutes unless you are running from the battery, which can only last so long before you need to charge it. Nobody in my family except my dad and I know anything about RAM sticks, and since my dad is abroad, guess who's fault it will be if the new stick of RAM we ordered isn't working?

Back on topic, I probably will post a couple of sprites, but none are final. I just edited The Obliviator 3 hours ago so now it looks completely different. I might even chose to remove The Obliviator altogether, as I can only imagine how hard it will be to code drone ships...

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #103 on:** September 21, 2007, 04:40:00 pm »

oh thats why you didn't posted as much recently

, I'm sorry to hear about your laptop (wow, there goes another laptop again *points to rivereye*), I hope you can get it recovered soon

Delnar_Ersike · « **Reply #104 on:** September 21, 2007, 04:49:00 pm »

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QUOTE (DJ Omnimaga @ 21 Sep, 2007, 20:40)

oh thats why you didn't posted as much recently

, I'm sorry to hear about your laptop (wow, there goes another laptop again *points to rivereye*), I hope you can get it recovered soon

No recovery here because of the following reasons:

The fan is soldered to the motherboard, so replacing the fan will require a motherboard replacing, which costs as much as a new laptop of same/higher quality.
Not only is the laptop 9 years old, but it is also unsupported by the manufacturer (Dell) now and officially discontinued.
My dad voided the warranty a long time ago by doing some hacking concerning Mac OS X being able to run on computers with Intel processors (my dad is a Mac OS developer).
The laptop's other hardware has been acting strangely as well (For example, my USB ports corrupted the data they sent to the devices 50% of the time) and some parts are very outdated (like the Intel 945GMA chipset). To put it together: I needed an upgrade anyway.
I've been looking at a specific laptop model for quite some time, even before my laptop started acting up. And since holiday season is approaching, and the laptop is pretty cheap anyways (we are talking $750 for a laptop with the quality of a $1100 one), I guess my parents will be more convinced to get a new laptop instead of just giving another 9-year-old hand-me-down.

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