Nerm variations

[Dmitry]

Things went so well with the controls on my assembly based game, that I thought I'd backport one 'fix' to the original basic based Nerm.

 

I had a reasonable plan at first - just to support Altirra basic. But, I didn't have Altirra basic available at the moment that I had some time to work on it, so I backported to Atari basic.

 

It ran "OK", but then when I did get a chance to try it on Altirra, it is so laughably fast now that it's completely unplayable and I have to slow the machine down to 35% of it's original speed, and of course it messes all the sound up as well.

 

Well, this is a complete distraction from the real game, so not going to mess with it further....honestly having played this so much now, I don't really care about one option or the other, they both work the same for me.

 

All I can say - is in the assembly based Frake, the controls are silky smooth and I'm very happy. My attempt to show the difference in basic - meh - it's a different version of crapola, honestly.

 

original and changed version - recommend to use atari basic.

nerm.zip

[Dmitry]

well I saw a typo....this line should read

4 IF S=14 THEN DYA=-1:DXA=0:DIR=4:IF ODIR=1 OR ODIR=2 THEN D=TRIP

also,did a real quick slowdown version so the altirra basic version isn't too miserable.

delayed.atr

[devwebcl]

but this version the worm keeps growing...

[Dmitry]

removed (double post)

snake.xex

code.zip

Edited May 30, 2016 by Dmitry

[Dmitry]

Did I break something?

 

This version is not the full game - it is an experimental version - but I insist it is lag fixed.

This lag fixed version will go in Frake.

 

The colors are bad - this is just a demo of the concept, that's all.

 

The game will be going to ABBUC, so I can't release Frake early, per the rules, but it'll be released after that.