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Black Tiger was a port from a famous arcade game.
  
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.
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It is also known as Black Dragon in the Japanese version.
  
This one particulary shows the dilemma : How can a monochromatic game still display 6 colours in Mode 1, yet being monochromatic...
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The Amstrad version was a quite poor straight speccy port
 
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Well... It can and it does, yet there is no point doing it.
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[[Black Tiger CPC-Spectrum Comparison]]
  
==Speccy Port==
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The port was produced by [[Tiertex]].  
 
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Black Tiger is quite infamous for being one of the laziest speccy port.
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And even more infamous because the speccy's original version is not even that good to begin with.
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*Graphics : the Amstrad version use unmodified Graphical Datas.
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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.
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*Also some Raster interrupt are used in order to get more than 4 colours displayed on the screen.
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But the main problem is that it is quite useless as the Game's window is still monocolour ! So it simply wastes CPU power.
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==What If ?==
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*What we quite got :
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[[File:BlackTigerspeccymap.png|560px]]
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*What we could at least have :
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[[File:BlackTiger mega map speccy recolored.png|560px]]
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*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)
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*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)
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*then get rid of Rasters interrupts/palette change.
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There, you have a better version than the speccy one.
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[[Image:Black tiger screenshot.png|Black Tiger screen shot]]
  
  

Latest revision as of 00:34, 7 November 2011

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

Title: Black Tiger
Company: US Gold
Type: Platformer
Year: 1989
No of Players: 1
Language: English

Black Tiger CPC-Spectrum Comparison

The port was produced by Tiertex.

Black Tiger screen shot




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