> Well, in my Jumpman clone (which has been pretty much placed on hold
> until this summer), it wouldn't be too tough to create an algorithm that
> created quite playable boards by itself. Since 50-60 _fancy_ boards
You could do that on the SUpercharger... store the generated boards in
RAM. Or you could do a multiload for four to ten boards at a time if
they're pregenerated. But I like the idea of having it all on a cart :)
> could take up 64K without any trouble, I wouldn't mind seeing a larger
> cart. And I just figured while we were at it, might as well
> over-engineer than not! ;) Not to mention all the timing issues than
> can be circumvented by having creative branching in your now very long
> display drawing kernal.
Creative breanching? I'd think it'd be the other waqy round.... you could
unroll almost the entire kernel in a large ROM space.
> And I will have to respectfully disagree with your assertion than this
> mythical 1 meg cart (by 1 meg, I merely meant to symbolize "much bigger
> than we anticipate needing") would kill the nostalgia. If it's got two
> sprites, reflected/mirrored playfields, whatever groovy sound chip is in
> there, and a 6507 to run the whole shibang (leaving the display sync to
> the software), it's going to walk, talk, and look like a duck, er,
> 2600!!!
I know you're not a PC guy, but still, remember the last time someone said
"Oh, no one's ever gonna want more than 1 meg of space..." :)
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