Re: [stella] Thrust!

Subject: Re: [stella] Thrust!
From: Thomas Jentzsch <tjentzsch@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:25:30 +0100 (CET)
<Eckhard_Stolberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have tried it on my PAL 7800, as my VCS with the
> Supercharger is
> currently packed away. Thrust works nicely on it.
> Even the colours
> look acceptable, although they are different from
> the NTSC ones that
> z26 uses by default. 
I'm planning a PAL-version too. This could have 
a much higher playfield if i have enough RAM to store
the additional visible the player graphics. With 50Hz
i 
also might be able to use the extra overscan and 
vblank time for some improvement..

> The only problem is that when a
> life is lost
> and a new ship appears, the screen jumps a bit as if
> it were out
> of sync for one frame. If the setup routine for a
> new ship takes longer
> to execute than you have time in the VBLANK and
> overscan part of the screen,
> it might be better to blank the screen for a full
> frame instead.
At the moment it's just some testing code that simply
jumps to the right place. I haven't done any timing
there. 


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