Subject: Re: [stella] Boulderdash - musings and screen demos From: "Andrew Davie" <atari2600@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 23:07:03 +1000 |
Attached, my latest screen system/demo exploring BoulderDash capability. It does nothing but display various stuff... crystal, green goo, dirt, walls, boulder I am confident enough to claim the game is DEFINITELY doable with more RAM (aren't they all!). My plans are for a scrolling game, not a page-flipping one. Stay tuned. Cheers A PS: Of course we all realise we can't actually DO BoulderDash without the copyright holders' approval, right! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Saunders" <mos6507@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [stella] Boulderdash - musings and screen demos > At 06:18 PM 4/3/2003 +1000, you wrote: > > >I'm thinking, though, of designing the display system first and *then* > >worrying about the compression. Basically I really want to start a > >cartridge standard which provides bankswitching and extra RAM (say, 1 or > >2K). That would *really* open up the doors to interesting programs. > > I would really like to see a Starpath-like system where you can have more > than 6K of memory loaded at a time (all read-write), plus the ability to > load as many pages in from audio as you want. I was hoping that the Cuttle > Cart would provide a new banking scheme like that but it didn't. > > That's the biggest limitation with Starpath games, only having 6K to work > with at a time, which means for any sort of expansive game you are going to > have lots of load-time delays. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > >
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