[stella] Uno

[Glenn Saunders <mos6507@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:39 PM 9/9/2003, you wrote:

> I think UNO would be doable without extra RAM.  Any takers?
> (any disbelievers?)


The bit packing sounds like a nightmare, though.

Remember that with Uno you can wind up with players with craploads of 
cards.  There is no maximum amount of cards a bad Uno player can get stuck 
with.  Visually you need to be able to cycle through these.

Logically speaking it makes sense to represent each player's hand as a 
separate array of bytes.

Storing the entire deck's state as one continuous bit-packed array will 
make it a nightmare during VBLANK.  Lots of pointers to bit 
positions.  Lots of seeking and cross-checking all the time.  It would take 
a lot of computing time to, let's say, have the VCS count how many cards 
each player has in his hand.

I think it's pretty much a given that most of the computation would have to 
span frames even without an AI mode.


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