Yea, I realize that functionality would be really
limited. The reason I want to do it, though, is just
to see if it's possible to abstract any of the
hardware restrictions of the system itself.
What I was thinking would be cool was more of a 'test
compiler' at first - one that maybe would let the user
declare an arbitrary number of 8x8 'sprites' and
nothing else - ok maybe a symmetrical background too.
The fact that you can really only have two of these
'sprites' (player objects) on a line would be
completely abstracted from the user. Of course, in a
finished program, it would be painfully obvious (due
to the flicker) what happens when you do put, say, 8
sprites on a line at once. :) But the point is that
the higher-level language would abstract that from the
user. That, I think, would be a milestone in-and-of
itself.
Ben
--- Glenn Saunders <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 03:07 PM 7/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >My idea was to make a Game Maker that you draw
> stuff, tell it where to go on
> >the screen and what it does and hit a button and it
> makes the whole Atari
> >2600 game for you.
>
>
> The problem is that there is no standard way to draw
> to the screen using
> the 2600. Every game involves careful optimization
> and tradeoffs. The
> 2600 is always close to its limits on just about
> every game, cycle count,
> ROM, and RAM.
>
> Even if the Game Maker were all knowing it would be
> constantly telling you
> "sorry, this won't work on the 2600 as designed."
>
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