At 13.55 21/08/98 -0000, Ruffin Bailey wrote:
>>Now the whole building scrolls down: when a floor collapses, a new one
>>enters from the top. Please note that the 16 sprites move independently
>>(and other minor additions).
>
>I am getting a little flicker now when the floor falls, though just for a
>few seconds and just with the highest group of critters.
That's a feature! I make they flicker for a while, so that they don't
appear too unespectedly (..unesp..?!)
It can be changed, if you think it's not a very good effect.
> Any chance I
>could get you to post some commented code? I started going through a
>dissembled version (I noticed one lda VAR, adc #$00, sta VAR before I had
>to eat dinner ;), but with the number of updates coming out so quickly...
OK, I'll post it after some cleaning (but grab an Italian dictionary for
the comments :-)
>So what are your ideas for gameplay? Still planning on bouncing a ball
>to collapse the floors?
To be honest, I don't have a clue :-)
Anyway, I have the cast (4 objects per floor, the building, probably a door
made with the ball), now I need to find the plot.
It is likely that the player will be something bouncing, because I can't do
any animation, and a bouncing thing is better than nothing.
>If anyone gets a chance to look at it, give me a yell! It's just a
>missile that you can move with the player 1 joystick. Watch out! Fancy
>code! The .bin works on MacStella 0.7 and PCAE I believe.
> LDX #$01 ;2
> STA HMOVE ;3 DON'T FORGET TO HIT HMOVE!! or the object won't
>LF08E: STA WSYNC ;3 horizontally. I might have forgotten that for a
Hmmm... shouldn't HMOVE always follow WSYNC? Probably this will work on
emulators, but not on a real 2600.
I think that HMCLR must follow WSYNC too.
Ciao,
P.
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