[stella] Lode Runner, number of levels

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As for the number of levels, the XEGS Lode Runner cart (which I highly 
recommend by the way) has 99 levels built in.  It being all on the 
cartridge, it's really convenient, vs. the disk version.  There is 
something to be said of the benefits of banked ROM vs. load times, whether 
it be disk or supercharger ;)

Another cool thing about the Lode Runner cart is that it lets you 
read/write your custom levels to disk without even having to first boot up 
the machine in AtariDOS.  Pretty slick.

There were other carts that Atari converted over from diskbased 
games.  Flight Simulator II was one, and Ace of Aces.  They were using 
higher capacity banked ROMs for these, I'm sure.  I have Ace of Aces on 
disk and that game goes to the floppy every time you shift 
perspectives.  I'm sure it plays a lot better on cartridge.  Atari must 
have done a fair bit of recoding to make the games work that way.

Just thought it might be relevant to the discussion of how to store levels...


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