Re: [stella] Carts vs Tapes vs CDs vs BINs...

Subject: Re: [stella] Carts vs Tapes vs CDs vs BINs...
From: crackers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:30:30 -0500 (EST)
In article , you wrote:
>In article <199703081003.DAA17945@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, you wrote:
>
>>Do what I'm doing: forget games, just have fun with the machine.  My first
>>real submission is going to be a demo, most likely.
>~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
>
>Oh that's all I'm doing right now. I had SOOOOOOOooooOOOoooo much fun with
>that playfield graphics routine. I just sat there and stared at the 
>picture it drew on the screen and thought, "Wow, I MADE it draw that, and
>I can easily make it draw something else. Infact, I can make it draw almost
>anything I want it to with playfield graphics with just a bit of modification
>to my code.
>
>I'm just going to putter around making different subroutines to handle 
>different tasks and then  put them all together and see what happens.
>i remember back in the days of the PET and C-64, I'd do a lot of that sort
>of stuff and sometimes you'd come up with some pretty kooky ideas for games
>just by putting together all your experimental codes.
>
>My next experiment will be incorporating code into my block playfield code
>that reads in new playfield data halfway through the scanline to trick the
>machine into drawing a different right side of the playfield.
>
>That or I'll write something that draws a simple sprite on the screen and
>lets me move it about with a joystick, then see if I can incorporate that
>subroutine into my block playfield code.
>
>Man, I'm having some fun....
>
>                                  CRACKERS
>                     (Just like the old days from hell!!!)
>
>
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>
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>

ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry about that Nick.

You would think there could just be a command you could send
stella-request@xxxxxxxxxxx that would let you reply to stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
instead of the sender, since 99.9% of the time you're responding to the
list. Arrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!!!


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