On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Piero Cavina wrote:
> You must absolutely play it before starting an RPG project on the 2600. Not
> forgetting that it has a very nice way of handling some lines of text.
> If you don't have the Stella CD and you can't find a tape, then maybe Glenn
> could be so kind to "lend" you the binary... :)
I would only lend this guy Dragonstomper if he chose to develop it for the
Supercharger. I think he's going to hit a dead-end if he goes for banked
ROM and I won't "enable" him.
Also be aware that the source code to the Dragonstomper prototype
"Excalibur" is on the CD, from which much can be learned.
Doug Neubauer spent 15 months writing Solaris using a homebrew dev system
on his IBM PC. 15 months for a guy who had absorbed all of David Crane
and others' 2600 tricks, someone who helped design the POKEY chip. I have
the source code to it handed to me personally and it's about 1" thick of
code that bounces banks left and right. Writing a 16K banked ROM game is
not a trivial task and frankly, I do not think anyone on this list is
ready to attempt it, let alone 128K.
Writing a multiload Supercharger game would be considerably easier (though
not necessarily easy) to debug and distribute.
> Supercharger-only games wouldn't really be for all, as not everybody has a
> Supercharger, but it's always a good way to reach the 2600 enthusiasts. And
> they run on emulators.
Multiload SC games won't run on any emulators yet, as far as I know.
However, SCs are still readily available from certain sources for ~$15.
That would save people a lot of money if everyone distributed games
electronically since you only have to buy one cart.
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