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It's normally pretty easy to remove a laptop hard drive. My Dell for work has a couple screws that hold the drive in - take them out and the drive slides out the side of the case. The screws are labeled with what looks like a picture of a can.

Good luck with your Vostro. Dell is well known for having the best service of all.

 

BTW: I once thought about Elite and wire-frame graphics too. I even tried to do a rotating 3D-Cube a few years ago, but lost interest half way.

 

You need a simplified Bresenham like this, which straight forward could look like this:

   lda     vSum0           ; 3
   clc                     ; 2
   adc     vAdd0           ; 3
   sta     vSum0           ; 3
   lda     vMove0          ; 3
   adc     #0              ; 2
   sta     HMM0            ; 3 = 19

For more vertical lines, this is no problem. But the more horizontal lines are.

 

Elite is done pretty clever, since all objects are defined completely convex. This makes hidden lines solving much easier. Nevertheless, with just 5 objects to play with, the 2600 is IMO a bit too limited (unless you do a lot of flicker), especially during mass Thargon attacks.

I don't suppose the PC world has anything like FireWire target disk mode? I've recovered many a dead computer's data off drives this way.

Thanks for the suggestions on the Laptop. I'm going to talk with Dell support tomorrow and see what they recommend. I'm confident I could safely pull the drive myself and back it up. I just don't want to set off any "open case" flags in the system that would void my (hopefully extended) warranty.

 

Thomas, I've been looking at the Bresenham algorithm. It's covered in a 3D rendering tutorial that I've been researching. I'll discuss it my next blog post.

 

As for the number of objects that can be displayed at one time, it will be more than five, depending on the level of detail. It's going to use a bitmapped screen.

Thomas, I've been looking at the Bresenham algorithm. It's covered in a 3D rendering tutorial that I've been researching. I'll discuss it my next blog post.

I've done some Bresenham programming (heavily optimized of course ) in the past, so if you need any help, just message me.

 

As for the number of objects that can be displayed at one time, it will be more than five, depending on the level of detail. It's going to use a bitmapped screen.

I suppose that's the only approach that will work.

 

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