At 17.49 01/01/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>..it seems to me that Combat never uses the "classic" DEY/BPL/STA RESxx
>>loop to position players and missiles. It does everything with
>>HMOVE/RESMPx... cool! ;)
>
>Indeed. The player's position only needs to be set once during the game,
>and since neither of the sprites are ever re-used, they only need to be
>nudged back and forth whenever one wants to move a tank. This also saves
>RAM, you don't have the X position stored in memory.
Hmmm... I like it, is there any other old game done in this way?
>Have you noticed that when you're cycling through the biplane games,
>only one player's planes are reset every time you press SELECT?
Wee, never noticed before! :-)
P.
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