Can any programmers make this happen if I supply artwork?
I know there's Petra Midi stuff that can play in the background.
Re: Petris
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:47 pm
by Dan
Boray...
Re: Petris
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:28 pm
by pmal
Here are the midi files ... found them on the web a long time ago ...
--Phillip
Re: Petris
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:04 pm
by Boray
Jonathan wrote:How is Petris coming along?
Hmmm... I once hacked the Commodore 64 game "Le Mans" and exchanged the cars for flying electric guitars and changed the name to "Beat the System" though. I can't make the game available as that of course would be a severe breaking of copyrights but here are two snapshots for you:
Did anyone end up helping you Jonathan? I don't think there are any programmers that use this forum...
Re: Petris
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 2:03 pm
by Jonathan
Nobody did this, so all hope is currently lost.
Re: Petris
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:20 am
by Boray
It's like everything else in life: If you want something done - then do it yourself! And if you don't want to learn how to program, then maybe you can pay someone to make a game. It will probably just take 10 days of hard work 10 hours a day, so maybe $1800 is a fair price and a welcome income for some poor software engineering student. But before that, you have to make agreements with the involved record companies to be able to use the artwork. Good Luck.
Re: Petris
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:56 pm
by Dan
I am sure there is an opensource version of Tetris out there Jonathan, I'll help some how... I see your vision for Petris.
I can't make the game available as that of course would be a severe breaking of copyrights...
I'm not so sure. The vast majority of Commodore 64 software is no longer commercially available (why would it be?), and in many cases, the developers and publishers went out of business decades ago, so you couldn't pay them for the software even if you wanted to. A lot of it is considered "abandonware" these days and is freely available at a number of websites simply because there is nobody around who has any legal standing to press a copyright claim.
Edit: Holy thread resurrection, Batman! Had no idea I was responding to a six-year old topic.
Re: Petris
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 6:45 pm
by Jonathan
Oh, I don't care about—ok, fine. Someone link me to an open-source tetris and I'll just change the sprites and artwork.