Re: Simulated Space Fury Runs!

From: Zonn <zonn_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed May 28 1997 - 19:49:00 EDT

At 04:39 PM 5/28/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>I'm pleased to announce that attract mode is running in
>>a window on my PowerMac (as of 4pm PDT) using the modified
>>SF ROMs from Mark.
>
>Cool! *giggle*
>
>>Thanks to Clay for sending the vector
>>display code (the fragment you sent was missing the vector
>>length component.. I added that and everything started
>>looking correct)
>
>Hey... It was in there...
>
> distance=transform[i+1]; /* distance */
> ...
> deltax=sin(real_angle)*distance*zoom;
> deltay=-1*cos(real_angle)*distance*zoom;
>
>You need to set Zoom though. Well, anyway, glad it gave you a head-start! :-)
>
>>..now on to adding the coin-up stuff :-)
>
>Go for it! Keep us all posted. :-)

Out of curiousity, is this leading towards a realtime emulator? Runable on
a somewhat affordable computer, or will a PowerMac always be required to run
this?

-Zonn
Received on Wed May 28 16:50:19 1997

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Fri Aug 01 2003 - 00:32:06 EDT