Planet Bob - Colony 7 goes 8K

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Hi there!

 

Well, this is more of a CVS release than anything else. But yes, I'm working on it again

 

Bringing this to 8K was a lot more effort than it should have been, but that's what you get when trying to squeeze an 8K game into 4K first

 

The game does two different pairs of bankswitches, one midscreen (the score display code is in one bank only) and the other pair is to trigger GameStart/GameOver/Reset.

 

There was quite some logic to sort out to allow all of this while providing some rock-solid 262 / 312 scannline output, so now I have some double size paper laying around here with a dozen post-a-notes attached, all combined with a lot of arrows. I should photograph it some day

 

The good thing now, is that all code required for the VBLANK can freely get shifted around between intro and game bank, so I can smoothly adjust the ROM usage as needed.

 

Other minor changes:

- Added some dummy title screen placeholder code

- Added the music

- Fixed the bug Nathan reported

- Installed some rudimentary game frame

(RESET works everywhere, Fire starts the game)

 

Next I think I'll try to VCSify this:

 

colony7.zip

 

Greetings,

Manuel

 

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