Re: [stella] Trick12

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is REALLY COOL and opens up the door to a lot of different games that 
would otherwise be constrained to six sprites or the use of playfield.  For 
instance, Okie Dokie could be rewritten for 12 sprites, or a version of 
Othello or Go.

Quite a breakthrough!

After casually reading the Thrust source code I'd have to say that Thomas 
is really a fantastically innovative programmer.  The use of the illegal 
opcodes in particular in Thrust, by the looks of it, was the only way that 
game was possible, timingwise.  It's hard to tell to the casual player that 
that game is just barely doable by pulling out all the stops on the 2600...




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