>
> >Yes - Maze Craze et al... (Your biggest hurdle is not the display, it's
> >the RAM required to store your maze data. Maze Craze's maze is 23 rows
> >high, or a minimum of 115 bytes RAM which is a pretty good chunk of your
> >available RAM...)
>
> It only requires half of that much RAM. You start off with sort of a
> pegboard like this:
>
> X X X X X X X
>
> X X X X X X X
>
> X X X X X X X
>
> Then you fill in the walls to make a maze:
>
> XXXXXXX X XXX
> X X X X
> X X XXX XXX X
> X
> XXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
> So you only have to store have of the squares. :oD
>
At the risk of missing the joke a little, I think that using the
RAM for the playfield would be much faster in the kernal. A typical
time/space trade off.
On the other hand, you seem to describe a pretty good method for
maze generation. (depending on if you want a maze with a single
solution path, or just a corridor-like playfield) I think
"Tunnel Runner" (see Atari Age for a screen shot of its 2D view)
uses something like that, since it's the latter rather than a
maze to solve.
Ah, memories of this one type in text graphic program...not
sure what magazine, but it would draw a maze, and then solve it,
and you could watch the AI at work in both cases.
-Kirk
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