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!!!) > > >-- > >Accordionist - Wethifl Musician - Atari 2600 Collector | /\/\ >http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ad329/Profile.html | \^^/ >Bira Bira Devotee - FES Member - Samurai Pizza Cats Fan| =\/= > 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!!!!!!! -- To unsubscribe, send the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to stella-request@xxxxxxxxxxx
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