Re: DVG Multigame and Clay's ADL Multigame

>In my case I'm not concerned if anyone wants my mods at all. Hell, I don't
>even know if I can do it! But the idea is to push myself beyond my basic
>understanding of TTL.

I don't fault your intent at all... The thing I need to figure out is if
your "non-profit, just for fun" venture is going to make my "mostly for fun,
but needs to pay for itself too" venture impractical or should I just skip
it and work on something else. (No big deal really, I just want to spend my
time an projects where it will fill a need-- like something something else
probably won't do.)

>Wait - is yours a replacement board or is it a mod to a regular 'roids
>board?

It's a CPU daughtercard for a standard Asteroids board.

>Spoken like a true hardware guy - someone who makes hardware mods to work
>around software problems. ;-) Yeah, I've noticed everything is shifted,
>too. I'll fix it so it's shifted properly. Should just be a simple matter
>of positioning the beam when various things are drawn.

Spoken like a true software guy - "should just be a simple matter of..."
Boy, if I had a dollar for... (just messing w/ ya... ;-)

I solved it with a $.69 potentiometer on the Y output-- just move the screen
down enough to show the top of LL. Doesn't affect Ast/Dlx, but I don't like
the extra little mod if it's avoidable. So I'll be rooting for your
software fix to work.

>FWIW, If you want to take the sources (disassemblies, actually) and use
>them in your for-profit venture, fine by me.

Thanks for the offer. I already had to disassemble everything last year to
do all the patchwork on LL and DLX to get it running on AST. If you manage
to hack around the LL offset in software though I'll be all ears!

(I was thinking the offset might be kludge-able by just putting an extra
"move" instruction at the beginning of the display list, but then I wasn't
sure how the "zoom" for the actual landing would be affected and if
positions were hard coded or calculated or what. So the $0.69 worth of
potentiometer started looking pretty cool compared to who-knows how long
worth of software patches. ;-)

-Clay
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Received on Sat Mar 11 18:03:39 2000