[Star Castle Mines]

Not sure how it should be, but currently the ship bounces from the outer ring, even if the outer ring is no more.

[Star Castle Improvements]

Looks cool! I hope you are going to continue this to a final game.

[Programming is hard...]

Welcome to the Atari 2600 programmer's club! I can assure you, we all went through your 16 points listed (except 15 maybe).

[Star Castle Ship Movement]

32 directions? I should have checked before posting. It's 11 years ago...

[Star Castle Ship Movement]

No problem with the sprite. I remember how hard it was to find something working in 16 directions.

[Star Castle Colour Kernel]

[Mr. Optimist]

A label in the making will do too.

[Mr. Optimist]

My world's end theory: As long as there is at least one Atari 2600 game in the making, the world will be safe.

[Bye, Steve]

IMO Jobs was an exception, not because he was visionary (there are many you never hear about), but because he was manager who recognized them.

[a couple optimizations]

Optimizations? Did someone mention my name?

[(Insert stupid sixth anniversary here)]

I can assure you that wasn't the intent.

I know. Its me, not you. Don't worry.

[(Insert stupid sixth anniversary here)]

At first glance I felt reminded at the Berlin Holocaust memorial...

[Or maybe another Intellivision]

Not the 1st time.

[Or maybe another Intellivision]

Did you post this a few hours ago already? And then withdraw that post again?

[With apologies to Berke Breathed]

****!

[Just like Mike Tyson]

BTW: I suggest replacing Atari with another Go term: Kakari

 

Kaka is baby speech in German, meaning shit. Fits!

[Just like Mike Tyson]

I saw it coming!

[Next up: Magnavox]

Waiting for Atari to send a C&D for "Artie the Atari"...

[Take my Intellivision, please!]

That's still kind of pricey.

How can 1% still be pricey? Except if 100% would be...

[Nothing if not topical]

[Nothing if not topical]

I wonder if someone could do a hack about this topic.

 

Shooting lawyers might be pretty en vogue at the moment.

[Take my Intellivision, please!]

Maybe I should do a Star Castle for 1% of the price...

[It's alive!]

[where's the humanoid?]

Instead of allowing to change direction once, maybe it is easier (and better looking) to limit the direction change. So that the missile cannot turn 90° in one step, but has to fly a curve instead.

[where's the humanoid?]

How about (randomly) incorporating the player's current movement direction? Especially if the robot is further away.