Subject: Re: [stella] Programming "Mindsets"?!? From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 12:47:03 -0800 (PST) |
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Ruffin Bailey wrote: > I didn't mean to suggest that football wasn't a great game or a great Actually, the game itself sucks compared to later offerings, especially Doug Neubauer's 3D super-football. Only within its historical context is it a good game. Technically, though, it was innovative. > My point was that the design is rather straightforward. I can quickly > see how most everything was done in that game. And today, since I can That may be true, but the 2600 was not designed with venitian blind in mind. > Just that the most obvious addition to Pac-Man that differs from > Football, to me, is that the game has to count how many dots one player > has collided with in the playfield. I really have no idea how the That's straightforward game logic, which is hardly as tough to write as the graphics kernel itself. > (eg, diagonal platforms like those in Donkey Kong. This is not an easy > task if I want a flexible enough core in my game to store many boards in > a small amount of memory. If you want to store many boards, you should move to the Starpath multiload environment, without a doubt. Have you decided on a format yet? Does it have to be just a 4K ROM? This will enforce the biggest constraints. -- Stella list is Administered by krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Glenn Saunders> Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html +-shameless plugs-------------------------------------------------------+ | Stella documentary at http://www.primenet.com/~krishna | | Nick's VCS links via http://www.primenet.com/~nickb/atariprg.htm | | Write the best game, win framed autographs of famous Atari alumni!! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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