R: [stella] Cubis beta 2

Subject: R: [stella] Cubis beta 2
From: "Piero Cavina" <p.cavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:42:39 +0200

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> Da: Eckhard Stolberg <Eckhard_Stolberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Oggetto: Re: [stella] Cubis beta 2
> Data: sabato 9 agosto 1997 16.45
> 
> >It's a good work. The biggest criticism I can make is that there are
> >already some Tetris clones for the 2600. Couldn't you include some
variant
> >in gameplay to make it a bit more original?
> 
> I thought the two player mode was quite original for VCS Tetris.

Ooops... when tried Cubis I didn't remember that there was a 2 players mode
and I started immediately a single player game. Sorry, I was wrong, it is
an original option indeed.

[Decay]
> I thought about that, but it was already hard enough to free the RAM for
> the current soundroutine. Maybe I'll change it to SC RAM, then decay
should
> be possible.

I think that a fixed decay time for all the notes should be enough, it
shouldn't be difficult to do modifying the routine that plays the notes:
              
AUDVx
!
!oooooooooooooooooooo 
!                    oo
!                      oo
!                        oo
!-------------------!------!-----> time (frames) 
note start          decay   note end
                    start

                    <------->
                    decay time
                    (fixed)


Ciao,
 P.



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