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March 7, 2020


atari2600land

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Last night I was working on Frank the Fruit Fly again. I had to work for hours on it since it wasn't cooperating with me. I previously set some stuff for the new level 5 stuff I was going to make soon. But as it turned out, if I omitted the .orgfill statements, it would work better and become a smaller game in size. Instead of it being a 171KB game, it's now a 106KB game. Which is good, I guess, but that means I would have to work harder to make more stuff in to fill it up to 512KB.

 

One thing about removing the .orgfill statements is that crap would display for a split second before drawing the screen. I had a solution: Make it display an all white screen when that happened. But that meant putting an all-white .bin file (the Pokemon Mini gets its graphics from .bin files) in the game. But since I now had 106KB, I guess that's okay. And, as it turned out, I could not manually tell the Pokemon Mini to clear out all the tiles (96 8×8 tiles make up the screen) because it gets the screen drawing data (what to draw on the screen) from those binary files and not manually putting in data, which is kind of weird.

 

Then I went to work on making screen 42, the first screen of level 5. Frank must fly to the window and press A when it's open to enter the building. In a rare occurrence, I have the next screen (what's inside the building) already planned. But I don't know if it will be possible to beat. I may have to change it. And to know if it's possible, I'll first have to program it. All of the above happened at about 2-6 a.m. last night. So at 6 a.m., I went to sleep. Didn't get up until about a few hours ago, at around 7 p.m. I tried to go to sleep earlier, but I got out of bed to try my ideas. But when you're always sleepy, it is very hard to tell when you should go to sleep and when you should wake up. But when I go lay down to sleep, it is very hard to shut my mind off because I'm laying there thinking about various stuff because it's very boring laying there trying to go to sleep.

 

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