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Looks interesting - though it freaks out if you move your joystick down.

The dancing HMOVE lines are mesmerizing.

if you put the white dude about halfway on the bottom white line, you can see where his sprite is being multiplexed. Nice engine! That's a ton of crap moving around...

 

...but what is it?

...but what is it?

 

An engine for Ufo I'd guess

It is an engine that multiplexes both players. I'm kind of annoyed with it because it was a ton of work to get it working and it doesn't look much better than just multiplexing a single player (use z26 to turn the players on and off to see what I mean).

 

What it's for? I was kind of toying with porting Robotron 2084!

 

It only uses 3 bytes for each sprite so I could probably double the number of sprites (to 32) for the demo. I don't think there would be enough time to process them outside the kernel though.

Hi there!

 

I love it! I always knew that the VCS could do games like that

 

Greetings,

Manuel

I love it! I always knew that the VCS could do games like that

Thanks.

 

But I don't think my demo supports your belief.

 

 

But I don't think my demo supports your belief.

 

Does the demo require the sprites to be of uniform height, or can it work with variable-height ones? Some neat stuff there in any case.

Now that you mention it, it does look quite a bit like Robotron.

 

I definitely think it looks good enough to make a playable game, if not a flicker-free one. No worse than Asteroids

But I don't think my demo supports your belief.

 

Does the demo require the sprites to be of uniform height, or can it work with variable-height ones? Some neat stuff there in any case.

The sprites can be any height, any color. Can't change NUSIZx, though. At least not right now; probably could fit it in with a little tweaking. The kernel is kind of a mess right now, though it seems to work.

I can see how you could make a Sinistar-like game out of this. Sinistar sprites are mostly small.