The Southsider

That's absolutely fantastic, definitely worth the extra time invested here!

 

And yes, it works flawless on my PAL system!

That's absolutely fantastic, definitely worth the extra time invested here!

And yes, it works flawless on my PAL system!

 

Thanks for your suggestion to look at the 13+2 char demo - I had completely forgotten about the NUSIZ trick. Also thanks for testing this on real hardware - it is definitely a big improvement over the old version.

 

Chris

Very nice!

 

Although... I kind of miss the flicker.

This NUSIZ trick is interesting. I wonder if this would work:

 

Set NUSIZ0 to two copies wide and NUSIZ1 to two copies close. After the two copies of P1 are drawn, change NUSIZ1 to two copies wide, then after two copies of P0 are drawn, change to two copies close. In theory, would something like this be possible?

 

101-------010

 

I wonder, since it would be a great way to display two three-digit scores.

I wonder, since it would be a great way to display two three-digit scores.

 

I think you can just shift the normal 6-char over the screen border so that it wraps around with 3 sprites on each side. IIRC I possibly did that in the Dog Patch demo I posted some time ago.

I wonder, since it would be a great way to display two three-digit scores.

 

I think you can just shift the normal 6-char over the screen border so that it wraps around with 3 sprites on each side. IIRC I possibly did that in the Dog Patch demo I posted some time ago.

Thanks! That's so obvious now, I don't know why I never thought of it

Well if your idea works, it's a bit more centered

wrapping 3 on each side might make the timing easier.

Set NUSIZ0 to two copies wide and NUSIZ1 to two copies close. After the two copies of P1 are drawn, change NUSIZ1 to two copies wide, then after two copies of P0 are drawn, change to two copies close. In theory, would something like this be possible?

 

101-------010

 

There are four positions, relative to the reset strobe, where a player or missile sprite can be triggered (at 16, 32, 64, or 160 pixels after the strobe). The last is always enabled; the other three are controlled by NUSIZx bits 0-2. To be precise: (bit 0 and not bit 2), (bit 1), (bit 2 and not bit 0).

 

Player 1 could behave something like what you're after, but player 0 wouldn't.