jetpac-nula

A VideoNuLA version of the classic BBC Micro game. Features reworked graphics for:

• Player
• Fuel pod
• Platforms
• Items
• Aliens
• Score/Lives font

The rockets are left alone because I felt these were so iconic to the game.

Tools required

To build and apply the patch you'll need these tools:

• beebasm
• png2bbc
• snap
• emacs

Emacs Lisp is used as a scripting language to post-process some of the graphics, make tables etc. mainly because I use Emacs heavily so this was at my fingertips already. The repack.el file drives all this, and requires 2 other packages to be installed (see comments in the file).

Building

Edit the makefile to point at the tools detailed above and running make gfx followed by make should build jetpac-nula.ssd which can then be loaded into a BBC Micro emulator, preferably one that supports the VideoNuLA, eg b2

Thanks

Chris Hogg - Art
Rob Coleman - NuLA hardware, new score font and Master support
Tom Seddon - NuLA detection code