Polarium

[bogax]

1 hour ago, atari2600land said:

How do I get rid of those 5 extra pfblocks that have turned themselves on? I tried turning them off with "pfhline 0 11 31 off" but it broke the 10x8 grid code for no apparent reason.

1line13.bas  has 10 lines in the playfield definition

 

I don't know why pfhline isn't working, but maybe that has something to do with it

Edited May 26, 2020 by bogax

[bogax]

heh

 

I just realized you're telling it to turn on the 12th line in phline (you want row 10)

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by bogax

[+atari2600land]

I found the culprit: var46 put those pfblocks on the screen. I don't know why, but it did. So I replaced var46 with bally and it works now.

EDIT: using anything other than var47 puts pfblocks on the screen. Fortunately I had an unused variable, g, to use for the line detection, so I used it.

 

1line14.zip

[+atari2600land]

The next version will look like this:

[+atari2600land]

New puzzle #6.

New layout.

 

1line15.zip

[ZeroPage Homebrew]

8 minutes ago, atari2600land said:

New puzzle #6.

New layout.

Nice, puzzle #6 took about 5 tries before I got it, pretty good one. I was finally able to solve puzzle #4 earlier today (figured out 1-3 on the show).

 

Puzzle #5 still eludes me but I'll keep at it.

 

- James

[ZeroPage Homebrew]

Just found a bug I think, I was working on Puzzle #5 and didn't get it right. I pressed the button to stop drawing and start over and it said I got it right? Here's what it looked like.

 

 

EDIT: This also resulted in a win state:

 

Edited May 27, 2020 by ZeroPage Homebrew

[+atari2600land]

I'll look into it tomorrow. I need sleep.

[+atari2600land]

As I was trying to go to sleep, I thought of what the cause might be. Try this.

 

1line16.zip

[ZeroPage Homebrew]

2 hours ago, atari2600land said:

As I was trying to go to sleep, I thought of what the cause might be. Try this.

That's got it! Sorry for causing you to lay awake thinking of code. 🙂 

[+atari2600land]

No problem. I have trouble falling asleep every night.

[Bubbabyte]

Are you planning on finishing this? I know it's been over a year since the last update, but I just discovered Polarium Advance last night, and I'd LOVE to see this version of the game completed, as I think it works really well as a 2600 game.

Edited June 4 by Bubbabyte