More routines written

[BLuRry]

First I made the inverse/flicker routine for one sort of optical illusion. Now I've made another which draws dots on the corners of a checkerboard to make it look like it is warped. And I optimized the heck out of that so that there was extra CPU to add a scroller using the empty spaces inside the squares, billboard-style.

It's not terribly fast, but it's optimized enough to not be terribly slow. Double-hires is a very tricky thing, especially when you're trying to maintain the illusion that you're updating the whole screen!

Obligatory scroller: check.
At least two different routines: check.
One or two variations on the routines so they don't old within the first 15 seconds: check.
Music: Need music. Time to do that!
Crunch/Decrunch: 50% done. The packbits implementation for Apple Game Server is good for graphics, but I need to see if I can make use of other crunchers for code. Any recommendations?
Loader: Not written, but that will be pretty easy to write when the time comes.

-B

[aiia...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:40:23 AM UTC-7, BLuRry wrote:
> Obligatory scroller: check.

Sine Scroller?

3D Lores world with scrolling text on panels?

:-)

Can't wait to check out your demo!

Rich

[aiia...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 1:06:41 PM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:40:23 AM UTC-7, BLuRry wrote:
>
> > Obligatory scroller: check.
>
> Sine Scroller?

I have the SineScroller that you posted here years ago. I need to find it in my DSK collection because I like it a bunch. It would work great for an introduction screen for other wares!

Rich

[BLuRry]

It was a good routine, but it was awfully bulky if memory serves. I might use it again if I can 1) Find the original source and 2) Get a good packer so it doesn't take up a lot of storage space.

Anywho, I'll probably be quietly working on this stuff for a while -- The music part will be a big time sink. But it will happen. I know I can finally pull this thing off. ;-)

-B