Thursday 12 October 2017

Game#1 Asteroids

Game in Progress ....
So Game#1 is up. It's a very simple game where you have to dodge the falling rocks, in your Space Shuttle.

All the system stuff works - you can set the speed, 1 or 2 players and it will alternate them. When your turn is over it shows you the other hologram (a pic of the Shuttle, holo#1 you can see here, some rocks and a surface).

Games apparently either did this, or they had left/right sides for the sports game and the sea war game.

I've also fixed a couple of bugs (holograms weren't switching in this JS port ... they aren't holograms ... because I'd forgotten to write that bit of code) and rewritten the code for generating back lit holograms, which just didn't work in practice.

I'm beginning to see the limitations of this unit. I'm not convinced that however good a programmer you are - and Atari at that time had some very very good ones - it's possible to squeeze 7 decent LED games into 2k.  Things like Mattel Football were 2k in their own right. Even Simon, a much simpler game, is 1k.

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