Black Tiger - Revision history

MacDeath at 05:34, 7 November 2011

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	~~[[Image:~~Black ~~tiger screenshot~~.~~png\|thumb\|right\|~~Black ~~Tiger screen shot]]~~		Black Tiger was a port from a famous arcade game.

			It is also known as Black Dragon in the Japanese version.

			The Amstrad version was a quite poor straight speccy port

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	The port was produced by [[Tiertex]].		The port was produced by [[Tiertex]].

			[[Image:Black tiger screenshot.png\|Black Tiger screen shot]]

MacDeath at 12:26, 1 May 2011

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	[[Black Tiger CPC-Spectrum Comparison]]		[[Black Tiger CPC-Spectrum Comparison]]

			The port was produced by [[Tiertex]].

Arnoldemu at 08:57, 28 April 2011

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			[[Black Tiger CPC-Spectrum Comparison]]
	~~==Speccy Port==~~

	Black Tiger ~~is quite infamous for being one of the laziest speccy port.~~

	~~And even more infamous because the speccy's original version is not even that good to begin with.~~

	*Graphics : the Amstrad version use unmodified Graphical Datas.

	The Sprites and tiles are stored in RAM in 1bit per pixel, sprites are also masked in 1 bit per pixel. the 1bpp datas are then turned into Mode1 2bit per pixel when they are to be displayed into the Video RAM area. Which is somewhat CPU intensive.

	*Also some Raster interrupt are used in order to get more than 4 colours displayed on the screen.

	~~But the main problem is that it is quite useless as the Game's window is still monocolour ! So it simply wastes CPU power.~~

	~~==What If ?==~~

	*What we quite got :

	~~[[File:BlackTigerspeccymap.png\|560px]]~~

	*What we could at least have :

	~~[[File:BlackTiger mega map speccy recolored.png\|560px~~]]


	*As the sprites are 1bpp + 1bpp mask , this means that if properly recoded in 2bpp they use the exact same amount of DATA in RAM, but could then be in 3 colours, 4th colour being used as mask, s used in super wonderboy (this is not shown on mock up)

	*Also it may be possible to apply some king of attribute colour on the tiles so the Bacjground and Foreground, while still being 1bpp/2 colours... could be say... 2 different colours (as shown)

	*then get rid of Rasters interrupts/palette change.

	~~There, you have a better version than the speccy one.~~

Arnoldemu at 08:56, 28 April 2011

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	~~A brilliant Arcade Game turned into one of the most infamous [[Speccy Port]], often cited in CPCwiki as a prime exemple of all that is worst with such productions.~~

	~~This one particulary shows the dilemma : How can a monochromatic game still display 6 colours in Mode 1, yet being monochromatic...~~

	~~Well... It can and it does, yet there is no point doing it.~~

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MacDeath at 22:28, 27 April 2011

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 And even more infamous because the speccy's original version is not even that good to begin with.
-*Graphics : the Amstrad version use unmodified Graphical Datas. the Sprites and tiles are stored in RAM in 1bit per pixel, sprites are also masked in 1 bit per pixel. the 1bpp datas are then turned into Mode1 2bit per pixel when they are to be displayed into the Video RAM area. Which is somewhat CPU intensive.
+*Graphics : the Amstrad version use unmodified Graphical Datas.
 *Also some Raster interrupt are used in order to get more than 4 colours displayed on the screen.

MacDeath at 21:47, 27 April 2011

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 == Download ==

Morn at 13:35, 8 July 2010

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	== ~~Links~~ ==		== Download ==

	[~~http~~:~~//en~~.~~wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tiger_%28arcade_game%29~~ Black Tiger ~~on wikipedia~~]		[[Media:Blacktig.zip\|Black Tiger DSK image download]]

	== ~~Download~~ ==		== Links ==

	~~[[Media:Blacktig.zip~~\|~~Black Tiger DSK image download]]~~		*{{CPCPower\|405}}
			*{{EnWiki\|Black_Tiger_%28arcade_game%29}}


	[[Category:Games]][[Category:Games 1989]][[Category:Platform]]		[[Category:Games]][[Category:Games 1989]][[Category:Platform]]

MacDeath at 06:17, 30 October 2009

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 A brilliant Arcade Game turned into one of the most infamous [[Speccy Port]], often cited in CPCwiki as a prime exemple of all that is worst with such productions.
-Released by [[US Gold]] in 1989.
+This one particulary shows the dilemma : How can a monochromatic game still display 6 colours in Mode 1, yet being monochromatic...
 == Links ==

CPCLER at 15:18, 14 October 2009

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	[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tiger_%28arcade_game%29 Black Tiger on wikipedia]		[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tiger_%28arcade_game%29 Black Tiger on wikipedia]

			== Download ==

			[[Media:Blacktig.zip\|Black Tiger DSK image download]]


	[[Category:Games]][[Category:Games 1989]][[Category:Platform]]		[[Category:Games]][[Category:Games 1989]][[Category:Platform]]

CPCLER at 15:14, 14 October 2009

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	A brilliant Arcade Game turned into one of the most infamous [[Speccy Port]], often cited in CPCwiki as a prime exemple of all that is worst with such productions.		A brilliant Arcade Game turned into one of the most infamous [[Speccy Port]], often cited in CPCwiki as a prime exemple of all that is worst with such productions.