Re: [stella] This may not be fixable... or is it?

Subject: Re: [stella] This may not be fixable... or is it?
From: bwmott@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:45:24 -0400 (EDT)
> >That ugly black bar is an artifact built into the 2600's hardware.  Look at
> >Berzerk and Missile Command for realy obvious examples of it.  You can't do
> >anything except don't use the left 8 pixels of the screen.
> 
> Do you have any idea how they cleared the problem in games like Combat?

They only position players at the very top of the screen or during
VBLANK.  The really tricky game to look at is He-man.  In that game they
actually position the players in the middle of the screen and they avoid 
the HMOVE blanks by hitting HMOVE at a very special time.  I posted a few
messages about this earlier this year.

Later,
Brad

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Bradford W. Mott (bwmott@xxxxxxx)          Computer Science Department
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bwmott/www           North Carolina State University
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