>            Didn't the entirety of Take That, with Robbie, once play
>            Bomberman on
>            a single Amiga on Gamesmaster? That must have been at
>            least three on
>            the keyboard, assuming I didn't make it up.

heh, I must admit I don't remember that episode at all.  There were 5
talented young men in Take That so that's a lot of hands!

>            Ant Attack would actually work really well on the Sam.
>            I've never seen
>            the original code, but by my reckoning it's a forward
>            raycast into a
>            triangle grid - Ant Attack having only one size and look
>            of block. So
>            it'd be really cheap to compute the minimal set of pixels
>            that must be
>            replotted to perform a scroll while leaving the same
>            coloured blocks
>            alone.

Could the block drawing routine use bitmap data?  I was imagining itty
bitty brick and stone wall effects and different textured floors.

Rob.

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