At 10:30 AM 8/20/01 -0400, Erik Mooney wrote:
Arkanoid's harder than it seems. You can't really do the colorful tiled
brick boards; the best you can do is the Super Breakout lines, and good luck
trying to highlight blocks as grey and gold.
I think this might be possible if you're willing to tolerate some
flicker. Display each brick of one color in one frame, each brick of the
second color in the second frame, and so on. Three or four colors would
probably be the limit before it starts looking bad.
Don't know how you'll display more than two falling capsules, and dunno
how you'll manage all those objects while also rewriting the playfield a
bunch of times per line.
I haven't played the original Arkanoid in a while, but I don't think it
allowed more than one capsule on the screen at a time. I know that
Arkanoid 2 and Arkanoid R do.
Of course, I've been proven wrong before when I've said that stuff can't
be done on our little machine... :)
I think the biggest challenge wouldn't be so much in the display, but in
the memory. The simplest brick-breaking game could allocate one bit per
brick. However, with Arkanoid, you'd need more bits per brick in order to
store its color, how many hits it has taken (for silvers), and whether or
not it hides a capsule. Assuming four bits per brick, that's only two per
byte, so an 8x16 field (for example) would cost 64 bytes. I'm pretty sure
Arkanoid fields could have more than eight rows, so the cost could be higher.
You'd also need quite a bit of ROM to store the 30 (?) levels in the game.
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