| 31-Mar-08 |
Atari XL/XE Space Harrier Conversion Project
31st March 2008
I guess Fasthosts don't like hosting streaming media, as they deliberately crippled playback of the first movies I uploaded, even after any initial interest had died down (and there wasn't that much!). Goodness knows what would happen if they actually hosted any popular sites. Anyway, I'm sure they will be happy now they're hosted elsewhere.
The game tries to create the illusion of more than the 4 colour per screen line limit at this resolution by dithering colours every TV frame (50 times per second for PAL, 60 for NTSC). Since the movies run at a slower frame rate than this, the frames had to be blurred together to see the extra colours on the movies. The net result of this is that the movies don't flicker like the actual game does, and they look blurrier.
Here are the stages 1 to 5 running on the latest build.
Space Harrier Atari 8-bit Conversion Stage 1 from Chris Hutt on Vimeo.
Space Harrier Atari 8-bit Conversion Stage 2 from Chris Hutt on Vimeo.
Space Harrier Atari 8-bit Conversion Stage 3 from Chris Hutt on Vimeo.
Space Harrier Atari 8-bit Conversion Stage 4 from Chris Hutt on Vimeo.
Space Harrier Atari 8-bit Conversion Stage 5 from Chris Hutt on Vimeo.