Boulder Dash 2600

[andym00]

Go on, enlighten me as to what particular field I'm not up to scratch, in your opinion..

 

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[sack-c0s]

Go on, enlighten me as to what particular field I'm not up to scratch, in your opinion..

 

Did you leave him unsatisfied last night or something?

[Andrew Davie]

Insofar as the 2600 goes, BD and BB (if/when done) are state of the art and you'd not get much better on that machine without resorting to something like a fast RISC that sits on the cart and just pumps LDA #$xx / STA $yy instructions through the bus to hit the hardware at the quickest possible speed.

 

BD is a melody cartridge, so it does have this mythical beast you speak of

 

No, the above is incorrect. BD does not use anything other than standard bank-switching. All the magic is just good programming; no hardware assist at all.

The melody cart is just a host. The game works just fine on a Krokodile Cart, too. So, like, maybe do a bit of research before making wrong assertions.

Cheers

A