Memoirs of an X register - Drawing Shields...

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Evening all,

 

Just hacking away on the game. I have decided to add a set of three shields at the bottom of the playfield utilising ANTIC mode E for the graphics. I drew some preliminary shields using GIMP, and systematically converting each group of four pixels into their appropriate nibbles for the screen bytes. Is there an easier way to do this? hmm, i'll just plod along for now.

 

On the missile front, the missiles are firing properly, but I need to speed them up slightly, it is smoothly shooting however. Lessons learned? be sure to not overdo EORs.

 

-Thom

 

<-- drawing the shields, guide lines show byte boundaries.

 

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