Subject: Re: [stella] Pitfall! LFSR From: "nj bloodline" <njbl00dline@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:27:27 -0400 |
What is "random scene generation" when all the scenes are in a certain order?! There's full maps out on the net to Pifall!, so I'm assuming the screens are always in the same order. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Saunders" <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [stella] Pitfall! LFSR > At 08:35 PM 9/3/2001 +0200, you wrote: > >I'm currently disassembling Pitfall! and found > >something (i think) quite interesting: > >The game uses a one byte (what I'd call) bidirectional > >LFSR for random scene generation. > > David Crane talks about this a lot in Stella at 20. > > I'm surprised more people on the list haven't ordered the video, but it is > NTSC-only so I can understand anyone in europe not getting one. > > > > > - > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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