>Reply to your message of 12/19/97 8:14 AM
>After all, who in their right mind would depend on the contents of hardware
>after a power up? Well, you might be surprised.
Hehe, me :) Actually I fought this problem with Okie Dokie. My problem is that the emulators and the Supercharger both initialize everything to zero, so when I test it it works. The first prototype I made of Okie Dokie (actually writing it to a ROM and trying it) did weird things on startup, I am using a Jr, but don't recall which one it is. At any rate, a very small loop that initializes all registers to $00 takes care of it, and I appreciate you pointing this out to me!
>So I guess the moral of the story is that the *rainbow* Atari 2600 seems to
>power up with TIA registers and/or RAM in a different state than the
>*traditional* model. Not that this has anything to do with Multi050... but
>who knows ???
Very interesting tidbit of information!
>BTW, I still haven't fixed object wrapping in z26, but I really like how
>obvious Multi050 makes the bug. I know of no other game that makes it so
>obvious what needs to be done. Cool.
What platform was z26 for again and where can we get it?
Take Care,
Bob
Wanna write a game for the Atari 2600?
Check out http://www.novia.net/~rcolbert
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