Goals:

-> This is just a brief entry. Small progress, but progress is progress.

-> Add 30 Hz flicker to the program to double the number of objects shown.

-> Prototyping of a possible game idea using pure bBasic.

Design:

-> Start from last entry.

-> Delete the joystick code, and disable the player animation code.

-> Add a framecounter and add odd/even frame handling

-> For now, just separate the two sets of sprites horizontally.

-> no player control is available.

Implementation:

main002.txt

main002.txt.bin

Lessons learned:

-> I really need to stop typing the word missile incorrectly.

Recommendations for improving bBasic:

-> None. Looking at the asm file it was nice to see that the compiler optimizes for a + 1 operation by using the INC instruction.

Up Next:

-> Animating 12 sprites.