Game port idea - Gridrunner by Jeff Minter (possibly even for mini-memory)

[Willsy]

1 color per sprite.

 

But why not draw the camel with background characters? It's big and blocky, and it comparably doesn't move very often. (And still small enough to draw every frame for the scrolling).

That's what I was thinking. You use sprites for things that are moving often/fast - because you don't have to erase them before you move them. Given the slow rate of movement of the camel, I would think it's possible to implement is using background characters.

 

One thing: The C64 has a 40 column (colour) screen. We have a 32 column screen.

[Asmusr]

But the camel has to move in front of a scrolling mountain range, I think that would be difficult to obtain using characters and would require the mountains and the camel to be the same color. I think it would be easier to display the camel using 3x2 magnified sprites, use the remaining sprite per line for the ship, and either depend on a flicker routine or use background characters for the shot.