RE: Odp: [stella] AOTM AFOS New Version

["Mark Jindra" <markjindra69@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a prety cool game. I side to side motion seems at a good speed and 
the ships decreasing in size when they are hit was a pleasant suprise for me 
when I shot the first one. I agree that tossing in some variation would be a 
good thing and it did strike me that you may be able to add a few more 
things to the screen, either moving or stationary, similar to the little 
bases that guard the player in space invaders. Or possibly a second screen 
between waves similar to cosmic ark that had you fighting a larger 
stationary ufo that shot back.

Great work though, I'm just starting my foray into 2600 programming and 
hopefully I will have something for critique soon.

MJ


> From: "Shrek" <matzieq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Odp: [stella] AOTM AFOS New Version
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:46:23 +0200
>
> 2) When I added couple of instructions to the overscan, the ufo was 
> behaving weirdly. It changed X pos. by a few pixels from time to time. Why? 
> Does it mean that overscan is full of code? I thinked of adding some 
> variations to the game, like faster missiles, missiles that keep Xpos with 
> ufo, or missiles that chase player. If the overscan is full, where will I 
> insert all these?... poor me.
>
>
> OK, I think I figured it out. It happened also when I added some game data 
> What I think is: when I put some more data after the ship, or in the 
> overscan routines, I made distance between UFO positioning code, and it's 
> data longer - and probably, the loading instructions took more time, 'cause 
> they had to cross the page boundary. So when I changed place of the UFO 
> data, everything got back to normal.
> Am I correct?
>
> Maciej
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