msx-karts 1st playable demo

Master (170)

23-09-2020, 07:55

Hi all,

Inspired by the raytracing engine in development for the TI-99, I fancied a new engine. The code is barely 24 hours old, and thus full of bugs, but I think it looks quite fancy!

msx-karts.rom
Test on webMSX

By Latok

msx guru (3977)

23-09-2020, 08:13

If you can make this work, that would be great! Looks promising!

By wimpie3

Champion (438)

23-09-2020, 08:16

Great speed!

By Manuel

Ascended (19815)

23-09-2020, 09:39

The speed is STUNNING! Looks like Super MSX Karts in the works indeed! How many fps do you get??

By salutte

Master (170)

23-09-2020, 09:50

It is designed to achieve 30 fps on the single player mode, with room only for very light physics simulation. As of now, its not completely optimized. I assume that after full optimization is reached, and a decent gameplay is added, it will get around 20 fps on 60Hz computers and 16.66 on 50Hz ones

By Manuel

Ascended (19815)

23-09-2020, 09:51

Good enough for some gaming Great job!

By ray2day

Paladin (762)

23-09-2020, 10:01

looks promising - very fast - hope you can make a full game out of this - keep up the good work!

By Thom

Paladin (715)

23-09-2020, 10:04

Very, very impressive. And you're programming this in a C/ASM hybrid?

By salutte

Master (170)

23-09-2020, 10:11

The engine was pretty fast to do, but making the rest of the game will take some time.

I program in a mix of C/ASM, the main game is in C, but the core "dump to VDP" routine is ASM. Code is in:
https://github.com/MartinezTorres/msx-karts

but it is very very rough right now.

By santiontanon

Paragon (1873)

23-09-2020, 11:39

This is ridiculously impressive!! Great job!!!! Hard to believe an MSX1 can go that fast!!! really cool. Looking forward to how is it going to look with sprites added!!! I think just a few sprites here and there, some scoreboard and little else is needed for a ull gameplay demo!!!

By hamlet

Scribe (4113)

23-09-2020, 11:55

This is mode 7 on MSX1!