At 03:53 PM 3/31/2004, you wrote:
The level ROM will contain the playfield bitmap in PF order along with
player/enemy starting positions and some other stuff (like a music track
using Paul's VCS tracker).
Wow. Having a unique song for each level would be really really
cool. Then you could theme the music to the theme of the level. That
would be a step up over regular Lode Runner, which doesn't have any music
at all, and would help compensate for the simpler graphics.
BTW, if you are having trouble with your kernel you really should fully
exploit the SC RAM. I read through your journal about how you were doing
some self-modifying code and I think that's the key to doing this game
right without lots of flicker.
You can basically copy the kernel code to RAM (or have a bunch of different
kernel modes and overwrite JMP addresses to script out which to run and
when) on the fly between frames. Assuming there is enough CPU time
inbetween frames, that would allow for as much flexibility as you can do in
a static title screen since nothing really has to be evaluated inside the
kernel anymore.
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