Re: [stella] 2600 Radial Pong

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What are you planning to use as a control scheme?   Hopefully not 
joysticks.  Joysticks for pong games suck.  In the Java game it works 
because you have the mouse.  I know in an ideal world you'd want infinite 
rotation but unfortunately the driving controller won't yield enough 
resolution for that.  So you may be stuck using the paddles and thus 
forcing a hard left and right limit to the rotation.

I like the way you did the circle rotation on the sprites.  Makes me wonder 
whether Star Castle might have been possible after all (with flicker of 
course).



At 09:02 PM 7/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post to the list, but I've been lurking for a few days :)
>
> I've finally got my courage up to working on a little 2600 side project..
> Radial Pong, suggested by Skatepunk60 of AtariAge.  Here is the Java
> version:
>
> http://mx.geocities.com/castanosmx/juegos/radialpong/radialpong.html
>
> I've gotten decently far on my own.  My next challenge is being able to
> choose the horizontal position of the sprites & ball.  I am using
> horizontal motion to move them relative to whatere they started out, but
> I'm not quite sure how to specify where that starting point is.  If you
> guys can pass along any pointers or examples in this area it would be
> great.
>
> I've attached the current source code/binary as a zip.  If I'm already
> doing something "bad" please let me know before it gets too integrated :)
>
> Thanks,
> calamari

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