Re: Aw: [stella] A largely completed disassembly of Coleco's Venture.

[RMundschau <rmundschau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I hope my initial guesswork draft wasn't too confusing and off ;-)

No, not at all.   The only thing I really needed to change that you 
disassembled, was the liveGFX stuff which turned out to be part of an 
elaborate event generating mechanism.


> > Some interested stuff going on in this game engine.  I am surprised 
> > that Coleco didn't take
> > advantage of this game engine to produce another maze shooter game 
> > with a different
> > theme, like SCI-FI.
>
> I also found it fascinating and impressive. Doesn't fit in the picture 
> of Coleco programmers ruining 2600 versions on purpose :-)

Yes, I think its a probably untrue considering the sophistication of 
the venture code.  What I do see, however, is a lot of room for 
optimization.   Given another month or 2 the programmer probably could 
have optimized the code to free up space and added a couple more 
features to the game.    That's what surprises me most.   The 
programmer should have gone to management and said, "hey we have a 
beginnings of a great game engine here, give me 2 months and I'll give 
you another great game with a different theme."

Cheers!
Rob

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