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Nathan Strum · December 18, 2011

Since it's unfinished, I'd say you could only charge about $16,000 for it.

cd-w · December 18, 2011

Well, I sure hope no pirates get hold of it

LS650 · December 18, 2011

Looks good so far...

roland p · December 18, 2011

That looks very good!

I like the fact it uses only a single sprite to create the rings.

How many cycles do you have left?

cd-w · December 18, 2011

Thanks - the ring rotation is done entirely in the overscan area, so there are (at least) 37 scanlines remaining.

bomberpunk · December 19, 2011

sweet. i'll give you 32K in monopoly money just for posting this demo.

Gemintronic · December 20, 2011

I can deal with the rings flickering but the ship in the middle really needs to not flicker. Very impressive so far!

Can't you shrink the playfield down and use that as a canvas for the rings?

cd-w · December 20, 2011

The flicker is almost invisible on a real TV (or by pressing Alt-P in Stella).

Unfortunately the size of the playfield is fixed, so it can't be used here. Stellar Fortress by Trogdor shows what is possible using the playfield.

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