Re: [stella] RPG progress

["Paul Slocum" <paul-stella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Wow, the castle has even a second level!

That second level is actually very big, but I haven't had time to fill it 
out yet.

- On the very right edge, the last two pixels are missing every other
>   scannline. If there's water at the left, the blue color repeats for one 
> pixel
>   wide stripes on the right.

I'll look again and see if I can tweak the timing, but as I recall, I tried 
to fix this before and couldn't figure out a way.  I think the issue was 
the way the processor cycles line up with the graphics.  Turning off the 
playfield either ends up coming early or late, and I ended up compromising 
by alternating doing it early one frame and late the next frame.  I usually 
don't notice it anymore (especially on the TV).

> - Scrolling looks weird, like if the "new" blocks would come in slower 
> than the
>   "old" ones disappear. This looks especially weird when scrolling water or
>   walls. Also I got the impression as if sometimes "wrong" blocks are 
> scrolled
>   in first (even with the wrong color!) which is then corrected later.

It takes 3 frames to build the next row/column of tiles, so there's not 
really any way to fix this.  But you shouldn't be seeing the wrong tiles 
being drawn first -- let me know where you are seeing this.

I just changed the tiles from 8x10 to 8x12 which gives a little more detail 
on the tiles and de-emphasizes the vertical gap between rows of 
tiles.  I've attached the new version.  I've now got Strongsad (from 
Homestar Runner) in as the main character.

-paul

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