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When you first proposed it I had no comment/ interest.

 

When you posted the 50 sprite demo I took notice.

 

When you posted a playable demo I thought, "What a good thing for my starplex controller!" And it sure is!

 

Comment; I like this demo much more because of the movement of the rocks. Sounds great, and love the 'vector' option.

Suggestion; In space when you thrust you don't slow down and stop, you keep going...

Very nice! I'm still loving the 4 shots, and the explosions are a nice addition.

The movement of the rocks is why I decided to redo it with the variation of Frantic's sprite kernel. The movement in the original asteroids is way to limited because the up moving rocks all move upward at the same speed and the down moving rocks all move downward at the same speed(both have some left/right differences).

 

That's an idea - I put a note in the source to add a Friction Yes/No menu option.

 

 

Yeah, the explosions definitely add something that was lacking before.

 

 

I've been play a few games and think the asteroids are too slow initially. I'm trying to decide if I should redo the speed table so it starts higher, or leave the slower ones in place as a "childrens option".

I thought the speed was just right, but then I'm not the best game player in the world.

I thought of another game that might be able to take advantage of this driver... Time Pilot. I don't think Coleco really did justice to that one on the Atari 2600...

I'll leave the speeds then have a difficulty selection that lets the player select the speeds.

 

Yeah, it could handle Time Pilot - the mix of on screen elements would work well with it. I should probably finish the projects I've started though before spinning off another one

That sounds like a great idea to have the player select the speeds. This game rocks!