Re: [stella] Useless Information Department

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:35 AM 12/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> FWIW, you can use the sprite replication trick (sta RESP0/sta RESP1/sta 
> RESP0) with the Missiles.
>
> Why you would ever want to do this when the bitmaps available through the 
> Player objects is much more usefull, I don't know (perhaps to preserve the 
> Player's vertical positioning if you only need a very simple pattern?)


I could think of it being useful as a grid pattern for board games, 
providing a higher resolution grid than you could get with playfield.  But 
then you'd still have to fill in the gaps with something.  I'm assuming you 
can't manage a nonreflected playfield nor can you simultaneously do the 
RESP0 trick on the sprites with this trick, so you'd probably be limited to 
whatever you can do with the two players and the ball per line.

So I'm thinking the only use for it would be to use it in tandem with the 
other graphics.

I'm also thinking that depending on how precise you can get with the 
positioning of the cloned missile, if you used few enough of them per 
scanline you could potentially create denser starfields or more frantic 
shooters (think Gunfight) without having to rely on flicker as much.

I'd love to see a demo snowfall or starfield effect using this entirely 
with just missiles and see how densely packed you can fill the screen with 
random dots.



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