Bill Lange Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 I've been looking at the difference between Eastern Front 1941 and Getaway ... not in game play obviously, but in the scrolling play field. In EF, the objects are single color and appears to be Basic Mode 2 with about 3 X 3 screen fulls of data. Getaway has multi-color objects, so I am assuming that the game is done in Antic Mode 4 which allows for multicolor characters. Plus the game world is bigger. Besides having to design twice as many characters since MODE 4 characters are only 4 bits wide, are there any other draw backs to using Antic Mode 4 over Basic Mode 1 or 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted January 13, 2002 Share Posted January 13, 2002 Nope! Just uses a bit more RAM - 960 bytes... I have the EF source code somewhere - very clean and well documented - I was inspired by it! sTeVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanBoris Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 If anyone want's it, here is the Eastern Front source code (I went crazy the other day searching for this). Eastern Front Source Chris Crawford was a master of the Atari 8-bit hardware. He did an excellent series of articles on every aspect of the 8-bit hardware for Byte magazine in 1981/1982 that I still constantly refer to. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted January 14, 2002 Author Share Posted January 14, 2002 Dan - Thanks for posting the source code. I plan on taking a look at it. Any chance that you can put the Byte articles on line? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanBoris Posted January 14, 2002 Share Posted January 14, 2002 For copyright reasons I would be reluctant to scan and post the articles, but a lot of the material in these articles is also in the book De-Re-Atari which you can get here: Moderator Edit: De Re Atari is located here: http://www.atariarchives.org/dere/ Chris Crawford wrote the first 6 six sections of De-Re and some of the sections are verbatim copies of the Byte articles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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