7/28/2001 12:51:27 PM, "nj bloodline" <njbl00dline@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>How about this for an idea of a simple game.. an update to Maze Craze that
>uses multiple screens for the maze.. maybe like a grid of maze screens 5
>wide by 5 high.. so that would be 25 screens making up one maze.. a lot more
>challenging.
Harder than it sounds. The problem is that to scroll horizontally, you need to
shift/rotate the playfield data. There isn't enough time during a kernel to do that,
and there isn't enough RAM to store the results of the shifting outside the kernel.
You'd more or less need a separate copy of the maze in ROM for each horizontal
scrolling position.
There's rather a reason that so few games do horizontal playfield scrolling on the
2600. Vertical-only scrolling is quite easy, though.
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