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GENERAL => Projects => Topic started by: padman on September 21, 2012

Title: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: padman on September 21, 2012

Hi guys,

well this is nothing special nowadays, but it sure was back in 1987...  ;) It's no exact remake, it's actually just a little test. The purpose is to use original 300x200 gfx and then scale and show them fullscreen on higher resolutions without black bars and ugly stretching. It works quite well on my system running a resolution of 1440x900.
If any of you guys could test it please and tell me if it works at all, if there are any oddities and what resolutions it was tested on.

Thanks in advance!

Pad  :)

F1-F10 toggles the Analog logo on/off.
F12 toggles bilinear filtering on/off.
ESC exits.

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: Clyde on September 21, 2012

Yep it works Dude and very nice too!!

Looks like I'm first in the queue.

OS    : Win 7 64 - Bit
PROC: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ 2.00ghz
GFX  : Nvidia Geforce 7600gs
RES  : 1280 x 1024 x 60 hz

Goes better with the logo off.
I didn't hear any sound incase there was any.

I haven't seen the original either.

Cool,
Clyde.

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: Raizor on September 21, 2012

Runs fine here too Padman at 1920x1080 res.

It does look a little bit like the scaling might be slightly out. On the first screen (with all the text), the Shiny Bubbles logo is missing the top half (it's off the top of the screen).  The text on the bottom right (98007) hits the very bottom of the screen too, the bottom pixel of the text is right at the bottom of the screen.

Hope this helps.

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: Kirl on September 21, 2012

Nice one!  :clap:

Ran only slightly choppy on my laptop (@ 1920 x 1080), but I seem to be having more speed issues lately. Got the same text issues Raizor described.

Well done though, the filter works great!

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: Hotshot on September 21, 2012

it ran so well and well done  :clap:

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: padman on September 22, 2012

Ok, I guess I should add some testing whether it's a 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio and scale the gfx accordingly. Or just leave some space blank at the top and bottom... Things were so much easier in the 4:3 era.  ::)

Anyway, thanks for testing guys! K++  :)

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: jace_stknights on September 24, 2012

Thanx mate for this piece of Atari history! I still remember when I saw it for the first time! was to impressibe :P

Runs fine here on xp and nvidia card!

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: benny! on September 24, 2012

N1!

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: neriakX on September 25, 2012

runs very well on windows 7 64 bit, 8 gb ram, gforce gtx 560 ti

thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: Shiny Bubbles
Post by: C3lt1c on September 30, 2012

Nice one! I love it...!  :clap: