No apologies required, looks very good to me. So if you're not in a
position to turn it into a full game, would you consider turning it into
a bit of middleware?? A bit cheeky I know but I'm sure it would find a
good home somewhere, probably for many. I made some experiments with
'full screen' scrolling ages ago but tbh I didn't know what I was doing
because the project was too large, here's a demo I found:
http://scenedamage.com/cookingcircle/Random/AtomManBackup.dsk
I had a good time doing my last game and I'm halfway* through another
one, having fun! Developing with a cross-compiler/tools really makes a
fantastic effect on productivity, and your tiles displayer/scroller
sounds the business. If you improve the algorithm, anyone using the
routines would get a instant upgrade...
I believe I am rambling.
Howard
*OK, 20%
On 17/05/2012 00:23, Thomas Harte wrote:
Apologies to all; I don't mean to treat this list as my own personal
development blog. However, here's a rock steady 50Hz, full-screen
rendition:
http://www.clocksignal.com/dropbox/scroller-fullscreen-50Hz.dsk
There are two versions on there and some quick relevant notes. Takeaways:
• the border masking is overdraw and I'd rather fix the problem by
just not drawing incorrectly in the first place;
• that being the case, I've only properly profiled the unmasked
version, and found it takes no more than 60% of the available CPU time
per frame in its current state.
On 15 May 2012 12:39,<[email protected]> wrote:
It's very cool to see scrolling that quick and smooth. :-) We just need
someone to use it in a game now!!
Quoting David Sanders<[email protected]>:
On 15 May 2012 11:32, Thomas Harte<[email protected]> wrote:
Or, more likely, the sad realisation that I can't scale the thing to a
proper game is fast approaching...
For the record, this is it mostly at 25fps, running (essentially) full
screen with black guttering to hide the edge jittering of yesterday:
Indeed, but we can dream eh?
That is indeed some of the smoothest, fastest full-screen scrolling I've
seen on the Coupé to date though :-)
