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I am amazed how much rom was reclaimed by this. I am sorry the logo didn't pan out. It didn't display well on my TV as you know, but it still was a beautiful logo.

 

If you needed a couple more pixels (to make a 50 pixel display) you could move M0 one pixel left and M1 one pixel right. The left and right edges have no GRPx masking so it's a freebie. You just have to move the Missiles back for the menu display after, but it still takes very few bytes to do this.

From too easy to too hard.

Maybe make the Spy Ship slower? Because once it's off-screen and you're in Condition Red, forget about it!

There's so many craft coming from all directions, you're lucky to get 1 more station -- if that.

Sometimes I hear Spy Ship Sighted, and don't even see the Spy Ship, and then you're in Condition Red.

 

Everything else is amazing, by the way.

 

 

Make this louder. I kept it quiet because the original is very quiet, but that seems out of place now:

 

.byte 0, $c5, $05, $c5, $05 ; _06_P_Type

.byte $c5, $05, $c5, $05 ; _06_P_Type

.byte $c5, $05, $c5 ; _06_P_Type

_06_P_Type: EQU * - SoundControlVolume - 1

I was surprised by that as well. The logo's drawn using the menu loop, so it's actually a 2-color 48 pixel image.

 

Yeah, it's still "Early support for the spy ship". It's very rough, which is why I've not posted it in the homebrew forum yet. I think the problem you're seeing (or not seeing) is the spy ship's appearing too close to the corner on one edge, and exiting on the adjacent edge right away. I need to rework where it appears, the current logic was cloned from the I & P-Type routine.

 

Thanks, I'll drop that change in tomorrow.

It is a shame that you had to drop the large Draconian logo. I wonder if it would have been possible to compress the logo data better (e.g. RLL encoding) and decompress it directly into the 4K display data region, but I guess the 96-pixel kernel would still take a lot of space?

Chris

My original plan was to look into compression, but when I was reviewing memory usage I realized that the 96 pixel kernel & supporting C code used a lot of space as well.

 

Nathan's worked up a new 2-color logo that adds back the station between the "fangs", I'll get that in place tonight.