The game 'engine' for the Electron is Boulder Dash 1 / BD1 so it won't be able to work for all the Boulder Dash 2 caves. Some look like they will work as they don't have the new BD2 elements. The new elements are slime (like a membrane which allows boulders/diamonds to pass through after a time) and horizontal growing walls (wall that will grown into empty spaces next to it). There is also a slight change to the direction which fireflies and butterflies start their movement (as I understand it). The closest we could get to is adapt the few caves which use these elements.
Maybe the next journey for this is to disassemble the BD1 code and add in those elements making BD2![:D]( "Very Happy")
It looks like Boulder Dash 3 doesn't have these new elements so should convert pretty well. It won't have the new graphics it introduced (though I think they were pretty terrible). There is a way to replace the graphics used in this modified BD1 version (a byte replacement hack, not editor), so possible to get pretty close I think.
Maybe the next journey for this is to disassemble the BD1 code and add in those elements making BD2
It looks like Boulder Dash 3 doesn't have these new elements so should convert pretty well. It won't have the new graphics it introduced (though I think they were pretty terrible). There is a way to replace the graphics used in this modified BD1 version (a byte replacement hack, not editor), so possible to get pretty close I think.
Statistics: Posted by raspberrypioneer — Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:20 am