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  1. Wow, never knew about Minnie, that would have been very cool.. Very interesting food for thought, and a lovely little design..
  2. I can’t quite make my mind up if this chipset is pure insanity or genius! Bloody good read though!
  3. I get what you're saying, just thought I'd see what the magic numbers would be.. I had a good look through the map to see if there was some logic to it, but if there is it passed over me.. I did also take a look through the SimCity source code to see how he handled the maps in there, see if there was some magic that maybe saw inspiration in RoBB.. Couldn't see any there, in fact came away from trawling the SimCity source code amazed at how simple it all is, which reinforces my feeling that RoBB is dead simple.. It did occur to me almost immediately after posting that that with the 4x4 or 5x5 block you could just store the blocks as 12bits without much additional complexity, or even 11bits with a little more fiddling of bits, and then essentially at the 34KB figure mentioned in the wiki.. Watching some videos of it, I think its 5x5 blocks, judging by the way some things are animated on it when you blow stuff up.. Could be wrong, feels like a lot of the tiles are designed with a centre character in the tile in many cases.. I also wonder if the 'sea pixels' are drawn automagically on top.. I didn't try removing them from the map, but they probably bloat the block count substanially, maybe even getting it down to less than 1024 blocks on the 5x5 block size map.. It's one of my favourite games on the 64, and I'd love have time to get something running, but it's not going to happen form me, life is dominated by little human beings at the moment.. Another 14 years or so, and ship him off to Uni and then hopefully can get back into some 2030's retro programming
  4. Well, there's a lot more blocks in there than I imagined, which are going to need >8bits each block index.. And you missed out the amount of storage for the blocks themselves.. Had a boring afternoon today at work, so thought I'd do some conversion of the actual map, just to see.. So... There's 244 chars in the map.. 2x2 Blocks = 2945 blocks.. Memory = 61780 bytes (blocks=11780, map=50000) 4x4 Blocks = 1695 blocks.. Memory = 39520 bytes (blocks=27120, map=12400) 8x8 Blocks = 662 blocks.. Memory = 45468 bytes (blocks=42368, map= 3100) Those sizes aren't ringing true for me, doesn't seem plausible, and too big, bar the 4x4 one.. Lets try other some sizes.. 3x3 Blocks = 2404 blocks.. Memory = 43714 bytes (blocks=21636, map=22078) 5x5 Blocks = 1213 blocks.. Memory = 38325 bytes (blocks=30325, map= 8000) 6x6 Blocks = 1026 blocks.. Memory = 42348 bytes (blocks=36936, map= 5412) 7x7 Blocks = 890 blocks.. Memory = 47600 bytes (blocks=43610, map= 3990) 10x10 Blocks = 393 blocks.. Memory = 41300 bytes (blocks=39300, map= 2000) They're all a metric shitload of memory because of the need for 16bit block indices.. Given the amount of blocks generated here, I can't help but feel some other system might be in use, some kind of direction reversible RLE, or simply compressing large blocks, or possibly even sonic style blocks of blocks kind of thing.. Maybe he did just go with 4x4 or 5x5 blocks, can't tell without looking at the memory.. But after looking at the generated character maps, they look very very compressible.. Either way, you're looking in the ball park of 40K for your map and blocks, not including any character sets.. The C64wiki in RoBB does mention the maps came in at 34KB, but I don't quite see how.. That would only make sense if it was 5x5 blocks, and only an 8 bit block index, which doesn't seem possible.. Oh god, I must resist urge to write stupid things
  5. That is a seriously cool looking font actually, and eminently readable at only 320 pixel resolution.. Good choice
  6. ACME supports a 24-bit PC, but it has a syntax that'll make you cringe compared to the others DASM does as well I think.. I think there's several others that do it as well.. It's something I requested for KickAss too, but it not happened so far.. That said, it's only a small extra step to output several 64KB blocks and concatenate them as a post-build step.. A few restrictions obviously, but if what I recall of the PoP code having jump tables for all the functions in the 'overlays', it'd be easily workable..
  7. I don't think the scrolling would be an issue.. Yes, there results are slightly different depending upon the order, ie: colour 0, 1 looks very slightly different to 1,0 Here's the C64 captured doing exactly this, with both odd/even even/odd.. There's not a lot in it, but if you had vast expanses and you were scrolling a one pixel vertically per frame than you may see some very (very!) subtle flickering happening.. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it http://www.larshaugs...c64/colmix.html The above image is Row 0 = Col 1 Row 1 = Col1/Col2 Row 2 = Col2/Col1 Row 3 = Col 2
  8. Really (really!) like those Xenon mock-ups.. There's a lot of potential there I think.. And Wizardy! I used to love that game on the 64.. For a long time I hoped Heavens RPG kind of Diablo game (Heaven and Hell ? iirc?) was going to be something along the lines of this while it was still an isometric point of view.. Great game, and one you could do very easily on the A8, nothing technically complicated about it, but it's a massive job to rewrite such a game from scratch.. You'd probably be better off hacking the raw 64 code to run on the A8[1], and then emulate the sprites with the left over time.. I mean, it's nothing but standard multi-colour text mode (I think!), so you could just plonk it as is on the A8, but with better color choices, and it's not exactly bursting at the seams with on-screen sprites That'd be one for the record books, emulating a 64 game on the A8 Either way, with the A8s scrolling this game should be a piece of cake on the A8 [1] But part of me suspects it's probably full to the brim memory wise anyway.. Oh, and bugger, just forgot about the character set size, still I'm sure there'd be a way round it if since there's not a huge amount of characters on screen at once..
  9. Another donation here, a worthy cause if ever there was one
  10. cheerfl z!rku!tz = akt!vatd

  11. I think I might have got yours FJC.. Guess he needs reminding
  12. Don't think it's a deal-breaker (even if it is a triangle rather than sine).. Follin's tunage would say not.. Hell, even JT made it sound like the original with RC3.. And that has fuck all clever shit going on.. Check the source to see it's about the music, not the technical abilities of the machine.. Damn, even the closing part of JT's set at Assembly 2012 reminded my why we love this shit (the first hour was shite though!)
  13. Me reading that with a mouthful of coffee was a really really bad idea
  14. Surely it's a bit rude to derail his thread with accusations of poor English skills ? He has a good grasp and has come along enormously since he first appeared and I personally have no problem understanding him.. Whilst we're out on the thin ice of the frozen language lake, yours aren't exactly the stuff of legends either, although I'm convinced that arrogant attitude is merely a side-effect of not speaking in your mother tongue
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