At 09:19 PM 11/4/2001 -0800, you wrote:
And this brings up another point; how much is the PC keyboard like
the Atari driving controller? I think if it's playable via PC, it should be
posible to make it playable with a joystick.
Don't 2600 emulators implement the driving controller via the mouse? I
know they do for the paddle. I was referring to the keyboard in reference
to the console switches.
Point me to it. (It may be in the archives, but like I said I haven't
been paying much attention.)
The most recent working build is in the Death Derby journal page.
I already offered to do the tap thing; would you mind if I made a stab at
coding this too? I realize it's sticking my nose pretty deep into your
Sure. Even if I don't use it, it might be useful to someone else.
If you wanted to tackle another part of the game also, be my guest. Beyond
a certain point I'd be glad to give you co-authoring credit if you want. I
really enjoy collaboration.
I'm actually quite anxious to get the missile-players on the screen and all
4 objects moving already. Once I get to that important milestone I'll
begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Things are still a little
tense because I don't know for certain how I'm going to squeeze all the
sprite code into the available space on the two line kernel, and even if I
do, I need to come up with a rock solid trick to avoid tearing effects when
I write to GRPx or ENAMx. As Thomas said, it's going to be REAL
close. I'm taking a leap of faith assuming that it's going to
work. Compared to that, the control scheme is a minor issue.
Second to that, the other hardest part of the code, I think, will be
translating a collision into a RAM bit to turn on. I've wrapped myself
around that problem for some time and haven't come up with an efficient
solution yet.
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