v1.1 — New VBXE Title Screen

What's new

• New colorful title screen using VBXE overlay (from assets/atari_color2.png)
• 9-color palette: black, blue, white, dark blue, yellow, light blue, gray, red, green
• VBXE overlay automatically disables during gameplay and re-enables on title screen
• Detection uses DLI color variable ($27) for reliable title/gameplay switching

How to use

Load Starquake_VBXE.xex in an Atari 800XL emulator with VBXE enabled (e.g. Altirra).
Without VBXE hardware, the game runs normally with the original title screen.

Changes since v1.0

• Replaced C64-derived overlay with clean pixel art title screen
• Fixed VBI detection ($27 instead of $AA)
• Fixed overlay staying visible during gameplay

v1.0 — VBXE Color Title Screen

First stable release. Adds C64-accurate colors to the Starquake title screen on Atari XL/XE with VBXE hardware.

Features:

• 8bpp VBXE overlay with all 7 C64 title screen colors (Pepto palette)
• Pre-rendered from C64 bitmap + per-cell color data
• RLE compressed overlay decompressed to VBXE VRAM at boot
• Auto-detects title screen via patched VBI — no external trampolines
• Overlay disables cleanly on all non-title screens (intro, gameplay, game over, high score)
• Game runs unmodified otherwise

Requirements: Atari XL/XE with VBXE (FX 1.xx core)

Download: Starquake_VBXE.xex — ready to run in Altirra (with VBXE device) or on real hardware with VBXE.