Dan's Road to 2600 nirvana

The 2600 can't do that many thin vertical lines as shown without excessive flicker. I assume you'd want to use the playfield for the maze, which can do thin horizontal lines but vertical lines must be 4 pixels wide.

 

As a guide, start with the 2600's "resolution" of 160x192, except that 160 is divided in chunks 4 pixels wide. ("Resolution" is in quotes to avoid any inference that the 2600 can do a full-screen bitmap - it can't.)

 

If you revise your mazes to fit this criteria and only use the two player objects as you've shown, the game will be quite doable.

The 2600 can't do that many thin vertical lines as shown without excessive flicker. I assume you'd want to use the playfield for the maze, which can do thin horizontal lines but vertical lines must be 4 pixels wide.

 

As a guide, start with the 2600's "resolution" of 160x192, except that 160 is divided in chunks 4 pixels wide. ("Resolution" is in quotes to avoid any inference that the 2600 can do a full-screen bitmap - it can't.)

 

If you revise your mazes to fit this criteria and only use the two player objects as you've shown, the game will be quite doable.

 

Thanks for the help!

 

I wasnt planning to do them that thin, it was just the way the program generated the maze, i was planning im makeing them more chunky. hopefully the resolution wont be that much of a issue. (like you said at least 4 pixles i have messed around in tiapaint with the 8 pixle chunks.

 

I will have a play with the 4 pixel one and see what happens. hopefully with so few objects it will be ok.