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In a jam.


atari2600land

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I have been working on the Secret Government Waffle Project again. Trump called, he said there's no need to panic, the government is still doing the secret waffle project. ;) Anyway, I have some problems involving jars of jam. If you get one, the waffles move slower, as intended, but something unintended happens as well: The waffles stick to a pattern and don't deviate from it until you get another jar of jam. I moved bits of code around to try and make it stop but I can't. I put the file folder graphic back on the title screen due to popular demand. (I thought my waffle looked good enough to eat.) It took me a while but I also put the score on the folder as well, at the bottom. In green. I don't know why I chose green for the score color. Now that I think about it, it sort of reminds me of moldy waffles. I had a problem with the score background color but eventually I picked the correct numerical value and put it on there. I think Intellivision programming is hard, even with a BASIC compiler. IMO Odyssey 2 assembly is much easier, but I guess the Intellivision is hard to program for because it's a complicated machine that can do lots of various things.

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Hey, atari2600land, your waffle graphic was very good (although the cherry pie look even more tasty).

 

As for the jam problem, why don't you describe the algorithm you are trying to implement to slow down the waffles and perhaps we can help you with that.

 

The Intellivision is hard to program mostly because the tools are so low-level and immature. For instance, we've only had IntyBASIC for a couple of years, and it's only been used for real games in the past year. Other platforms have had a head start. Even BatariBASIC is easier, even though it's for much tougher platform.

 

Once you get the hang of it, and the tools evolve with the community, you'll see that the Intellivision is a lot more versatile and simpler than many others. We just need to work on defining common ways of solving general problems. :)

 

Keep at it! I'll let Trump know that the Government Waffle Project is in good hands and on schedule. :thumbsup:

 

-dZ.

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