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Hey All

I've got an alpha/test release of my "Geometry Wars" (XBox) clone (called "Geotron") up for download on my website:

http://jum.pdroms.de or
http://www.geocities.com/james7780

If you're interested, please give it a whirl, and give me some feedback (see readme.txt).

If there's enough interest, I'll make it open-source.

Have fun!

- jum

[update 28 Jan 2005]: I've made a 2nd release of "Geotron" with lots of updates/fixes. It's also now built to run "standalone" (off memcard or CDR or whatever), so you don't need naplink/whatever to run it.
Not quite complete yet, but it's getting there... :)

[update 4 Feb 2005]: fixed flickering by switching on AA. Improved sound and other stuff.
[update 23 Feb 2005]: Version 0.3a released. Lots of updates. Much improved.

I like it. The display is very flickery though, gave me a headache. What resolution is it in?

The date in your readme.txt is wrong too, it's been 2005 for nearly three weeks now.

Oh, also, it tries to load geotron.vab as host:\geotron.vab, it'd be better if you left the \ out.

Cheers.

Thanks for the feedback, Model T.

Resolution is 640x480. I may have the field/frame thing wrong though, as I'm testing on a 320x224 LCD TV, which doesn't give a true reflection of the picture.

I'll fix the other things you mentioned. The VAB file will eventually end up linked into the elf, so that Geotron will be a standalone elf, so that anyone can run it off CD, memcard, HDD, whatever.

- jum

it works fine for me other than some little graphic glitch:
-in the ntsc version a part of the screen is cropped and i can't see it on my tv
-in the pal version the botton part is full of garbage (under the the space of screen actually used by the game)

anyway grat work

It's cropped because NTSC is actually 640x448, not 640x480. Low-res NTSC is 320x224. Playing around with the video registers allows for other widths like 400 or 512, but NTSC is always 224 high non-interlaced, or 448 high interlaced.

Funny game, just flickers a little (PAL).... hurry to see full of colors on my TV and Jeff Minter's like strange sounds :D !