Subject: Re: [stella] Try this demo, please. From: Scott Huggins <sub17_5k@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:39:57 -0800 (PST) |
You guys are amazing. During the course of three months I managed to read every Stella Archive Post from the past four years and ya'll never cease to astound me. I only hope I can be 10% of what Eckhard, Erik Mooney, Bob Colbert, Piero, Nick, (and the others) have become on the 2600. ....just when I think I'm getting this stuff, I see a post from ya'll and it reminds me how far I have to go. Scott --- Eckhard Stolberg <Eckhard_Stolberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 11:33 30.03.2000 +0200, you wrote: > > >This concept is interesting, but a problem could be > that if have a program > >that has a "very bad kernel" to achieve an > interesting effect, it could > >have a different behavior depending on the TV set > you play it. > > Or depending on the console you play it on. Like > Kool Aide Man, > which cannot be played on PAL machines (at least not > on mine) > and on most emulators, since the author wasn't able > to write > a proper sprite positioning routine. It hits RESP0 > and RESP1 > too soon after a HMOVE, which causes the players to > be placed > on different positions than they normally would. > Since the > horizontal timing of PAL TVs and VCSs is a little > different, > the player positioning is different in this special > case. > > This causes the score display graphics to be on top > of each other, > which constantly triggers the collision detection, > which makes > the game unplayable. Even Z26 has to cheat on this > one and uses > a special handling routine for this game. > > > Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg > > > > -- > Archives (includes files) at > http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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