Subject: Re: [stella] Pitfall! LFSR From: "Thomas Jentzsch" <tjentzsch@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:41:28 +0200 |
Glenn 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. As I'm just finishing the Pitfall! disassembling, I would like to know, if David has a name for that special LFSR. Have fun! Thomas _______________________________________________________ Thomas Jentzsch | *** Every bit is sacred ! *** tjentzsch at web dot de | _______________________________________________________________________ 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de IhrName@xxxxxx, 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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