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fantastic - I can see it's got smoother even in VICE. Will try on the real metal at the weekend with paddles.

Really looking forward to the finished product.

Top line now flickering during into music, but I guess you know that.

pixel wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:46 am arukanoido.demo.1609.zip further reducing frame drops, e.g. by unleashing the full power of VIC font rendering.

Nice one. Plenty smooth enough to me eyes.

Just tiny bug introduced, leaves some detritus in the top left corner occasionally.

I hate voltage drops - I have the same problem on a boombox I'm trying to repair.

Only way I've found to trace them is to isolate parts of the upstream circuit by cutting traces and progressively re-introduce it back until you find the offending component(s).

Try removing any socketed ICs to see if the voltage rises.

Did it work before you re-capped it? Try some switch cleaner on the on/off rocker as well, perhaps there's a voltage drop across it.

wow I got to admire you on this..

The intersection of Prophet 5 and Vic-20 users must be very small

Double buffering is a technique for creating smoother graphical animations. The general principle is that updates to an animation frame are written to an off-screen buffer. When the update is complete, the content of the off-screen buffer are displayed. For your application, I suggest you modify yo...

Excellent, I used to like to read this.

I would also take a look at Microsoft's "Visual Studio Code", it's a really great editor.

I'll have a listen on my real Vic into a Commodore monitor. Maybe we can compromise at 6...

PM sent.

btw, it could also be your TV, LCD TVs are not known for having the best sound. Try connecting to some powered speakers etc?

- the high-score music is very nice but it sounds kind of "schrabbelig" when more than 1 voice is playing at the same time. What is the volume you are playing this at? When using more than one voice you need to reduce the volumer-register to avoid this effect. Frogger'07 had this as well....

If you slow it down, you can see that yellow is used for the alternate colour so I don't think it's just a case of swapping the pixels around. The engines seem to straddle two char cells that use FG colour for the body, so I don't think you could swap the engine pixels to FG pixels and swap the colo...

Good work.

Tiny observation. On the spaceship intro with the flickering....

There are a couple of pixels flickering that shouldn't where the right engines meet the body. Can you tweak the image so that those pixels become part of the hull and thus don't flicker as it spoils the effect.

Awesome!

I like tlr's routine, seemed a bit simpler to me.

https://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bu ... 61#p109061