At 10:10 AM 2/24/2004, you wrote:
And any game that requires a hardware hack
to play is going to be a hard sell.
I'm just saying that the Atari 2600 console has the capacity to support 4
driving controllers with all the buttons active. There are enough signals
for that. Whether that is economically viable is another matter.
As to the scarcity of driving controllers, I'd really like to see someone
come up with a set of brand new driving controllers some day. They are
pretty versatile controllers and I'd like to see them used for more games.
Maybe an "intelligent flicker
routine" would be worth it, but w/ 4 objects, that becomes a very
difficult problem.
No worse than Ms Pac Man.
I've had some side conversations about this; while a lot of the people on
stella are hardcore kernal wizards...
The idea is to use as much of Indy 500 as possible, right?
Reading paddles involves some major surgery to the kernel. You'd actually
be able to preserve more of the existing Indy 500 kernel if you did 4
driving controllers because all the controller code could stay between
frames. You're really just doing some code cloning and bit shifting of the
grey-code plus the booster grip stuff which as Thomas explained a while
back only involves polling the pot lines at the very top and bottom of the
screen which doesn't add much overhead.
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