At 22:05 -0800 20-11-1997, Greg Troutman wrote:
>One 4K game that I've played a bit of recently that is very impressive,
>IMO, is Activision's Spider Fighter.
I had already noticed that - Spider Fighter is one of the most impressive
2600 programs, at least from a technical point of view. BTW, isn't it
inspired by a similiar, nice Apple 2 game?
>Some amazing code that I can't quite figure out, starting right at $F000,
>allows all that, plus bunch of missiles to fly as well... Very nice. I
>think I should be able to do a decent version of RESCUE in 4K
>considering that game as a sort of similar precedent.
And why not a de-luxe version of Oystron, with enemies floating up and
down.. :)
Sadly, Activision code is so smart, to be really hard to understand. Hey,
they were the best.
Ciao,
P.
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