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The first one definitely looks nicer. Of course, if you wouldn't have shown us that one, we wouldn't have a point of comparison, so the second one might have looked fine on its own.

The first one definitely looks nicer. Of course, if you wouldn't have shown us that one, we wouldn't have a point of comparison, so the second one might have looked fine on its own.

 

 

 

I added a short delay in order to angle the bucket ... looks a little better. I attached it to the end of the first post. I was thinking about adding a small sprite of the earth. Of course none of this adds anything to game-play, but it's a fun divergence until I can think of some game play elements. I guess I'm kinda doing this backwards.

 

;Show Big Dipper 	
LDA #2			;used to enable missile
LDX #6			;Number of stars

BigDipperLoop	
LDY StarTable,X		;get delay for loop (star placement)
STA WSYNC		;always start loop at same time

;Delay loop (positions stars)	
DipperDelay
DEY
BNE DipperDelay

DEX 

;Reposition left lower star in dipper
BNE NOMOVE
NOP
NOMOVE	

STA ENABL		;Turn missile on
STY RESBL		;strobe missile position

STA WSYNC		;Add some heigth to missiles
STA WSYNC		;Add some heigth to missiles
STY ENABL		;Turn missile off

BPL BigDipperLoop	;Start loop over

Using the Cosmic Ark trick here and turning on selected stars via a table.