Great Exploitations - bB 1.1 beta build release B

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Here is another release that should be close enough that programmers can get started on some games.

 

This release requires a test version of Stella, posted in the previous blog entry.

 

Included in this release:

• Support for 10 sprites (player0-player9)
• pfcolors: now works
• Background colors per line supported (uses new bkcolors: command)
• scorecolor: command to define score colors per line
• Comments with semicolon now supported
• C-style multiline comments with /* and */
• Use of extra RAM in DPC+ (described below)

A demo is included that shows some of the above features, except the extra RAM.

 

Sprite 0 is flicker-free and uses player0, while sprite 1 is flickered as needed for player1-player9. Use the left joystick in the demo to move the sprites and the button to change the sprite to move to see the flicker engine in action.

 

pfcolors: can specify from 1 to 255 colors for the playfield. Use DF4FRACINC to determine when the colors will update (the number of lines is...

 

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