Re: [stella] Stelladoc v2 status report

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:10 PM 10/2/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> Hmmm. What distinguishes a trick from an advanced technique? Is it that
> `advanced techniques' are something anyone would come up with on their own,
> given time?

An advanced technique is a class of routines that one could say represents 
a graphical feature (in software) for the 2600.  For instance, intelligent 
flicker is an advanced technique.  There are multiple ways to code for 
intelligent flicker.  Horizontal scrolling would be another.  These are 
things the 2600 can do like these, but can be acheived in various ways.

A trick would be a particular implementation in code to do something very 
specific that allows for much less variety in how it's done, or at some 
point a different coding approach just yields different tradeoffs, hence a 
different trick if you will.  Cosmic Ark stars would be one of those.

Tricks are useful to know and can certainly be molded to do different 
things, but it's mainly an issue of scope.  I guess you could classify 
tricks as a subcategory of a technique.

A semantical argument I guess.





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