I've been trying to program a home brew for a while now. Here is a brief summary of where I am at this point.

Here is a picture of my previous attempt at the point I gave up. The program became too disorganized and there was too much useless stuff that confused things further.


Then I re-started with a more simple program that was much easier to keep track of. Here I'm using the same data to display both players and some playfield.


Then I split the screen up into 5 bands. I'll use one for the score, two for the playfield top and bottom edges, one for the main playfield and one for a special area of the playfield.


Here is the current version