On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 cybergoth@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> <grumble>
> Why - Oh Why - is flicker accepted everywhere in the classic
> games, but not in mine...
> </grumble>
Because you're special? Because you can rebuild it? Faster? Stronger?
Better than it was before? I think you can. You have the technology.
:P
> Hm... I must admit, that I've never thought about doing such a big
> project before. In fact, I'm not too certain about what a bigger ROM size
> would gain for the gameplay. Wouldn't for example the
> 'main action display' have to run completely in 4K anyways?
I agree with um...was it Glenn? More ROM, and in the case of more starbases,
etc, more RAM would help a lot. I don't think your 'main action display'
has to fit completely in 4K. It only takes 3 cycles to switch banks.
(e.g. "LDA $FFF8" and it's done)
But surely it doesn't take you a whole 4K for just the kernel? :P
You could swap banks during vertical blank, do some game logic/calculations,
poke some RAM, and switch back to the display routine. Even then, you only
lose 6 processor cycles total (per iteration).
Just some thoughts...
-Chris
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