RE: [stella] Reflex: Paddle woes

["Paul Slocum" <paul-stella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Kirk: this looks like a driving controller game to me.  You'd 
have to spin the controller a bunch of times to get all the way around the 
board, but playing it, I notice you usually don't have to move very far 
between hits.  I think there's a good chance it could work.

I think paddles would not work very well.  The fact that they have a stop 
point would be really annoying.  I seriously doubt you could get paddle 
reading code in there anyway.  You'd probably have to read them on every 
scanline in the kernal, and I don't see that happening.  And I'm skeptical 
about whether you can get enough resolution reading them in Overscan and/or 
VBlank.

I looked at your kernal and I'm thinking you can probably free up quite a 
few cycles by unrolling it.  You've got plenty of free space anyway.  Not 
sure what else you want to add, but you've already got a few free 
cycles.  I bet you could display a couple of missiles or the ball.  Maybe 
add some powerups or something?

Anyway, the game looks great.

-paul

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