At 18.48 18/01/98 GMT, you wrote:
>>Another thing to consider, is that currently the Invaders cannot destroy
>>the shields. This should be fixed, but it doesn't look so easy...
>To make them able to destroy the shields, you'd need to
>change that to store the X coordinates in standard format, and either use a
>lookup table or the Hconvert routine to get the FC_X value for positioning
>it. If you can make that change, I'll figure out and do the
>bombs-destroy-shields routine.
I think that it would be better to convert the code to the standard format,
as this would allow other things like diagonal moving bombs.
Couldn't the already existing destroy-the-shields routine be generalized for
use with bombs and player shots?
>>>> BTW, don't ask for invisible invaders... I'd have too many things to
change.
>>>
>>>The mere concept of even trying to make the kernel do that had me laughing
>>>for about five minutes :)
>>
>>Don't you here a voice saying "nothing is impossible"...? :-)
>
>About two minutes after I wrote that message I realized that simply setting
>COLUPF to zero would work perfectly, except that you couldn't see the bombs
>until they dropped below the last row of invaders.
But Atari SI allows you to hit the invaders even when they're invisible.
This would be the difficult part.
P.
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