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I'm not sure if that was intended as an optimization challenge, but anyway here's two versions, one a slightly sped up version of yours, and the other optimized for size rather than speed. lda (1), y tax rol rol rol and #%00000011 sta temp1 txa ror ror and #%00001100 ora temp1 sta temp1 txa rol rol ...

darkatx wrote:looks like he abandoned it a couple of years ago

No: his blog is still being updated (today even)!
http://www.adamantyr.com/

Nice!
I object to only giving Arcadia 4/5 : )
Also, I wouldn't include the remakes in the same video. It pollutes the purity of the site in my opinion.

You could try reducing the possible complications. Put a single PRG with a simple file name, and then LOAD it directly, using device #10 (which is the device number it defaults to). If that doesn't work there could be a problem with the hardware.

Wow, it's certainly challenging!
Does it have a story like Quikman?

There are pokes for the key repeat too...
Check the programmer's reference manual - they are around 650 decimal.

To me, it's Metroid for the Vic. Heh... I've no idea why that would be. http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,31776/ The working title for Blue Star was Metroid Victory :) If you do start a follow-up would you keep it for the unexpanded Vic? That's a thorny question... Trying to...

gklinger wrote:I think giving it an 8 is a little on the low side.

That's why I want to start on the sequel
Seriously though, thanks for the encouragement!

Old School Gaming finally reviewed Blue Star:
http://www.oldschool-gaming.com/view_re ... _blue_star

Makes me want to start work on a sequel!

How about a poll? Would that give valid data?

Ghislain wrote:Very cool game. It's only 1.7 K -- do you have plans on adding more to the game?

Not Whack, no. I do have plans for a new game based loosely on the Whack engine, which I went into in the "Fun Game Idea" thread.

I would choose non-BCD for a larger project. BCD is good when you want to optimise the number printing routine for space, but the savings slowly disappear when you have a lot of operations on different numbers, as you have to sed and cld around each operation.

Two problems: The 864 = $360, not $34e (= 846) I wrote the branch as an offset. The compiler expects it to be an absolute address or a label. Try this: LDY #0 LOOP: LDA #1 STA $1E00,Y ; write 1 to the upper and lower pages of the screen memory STA $1F00,Y LDA #6 STA $9600,Y ; write 6 (blue) to the u...

I believe I have a better understanding of this program now, it is written with BASIC Tokens and executed from memory byte 864. From just looking at it I can see there is some PRINT tokens and some STEP tokens. Not quite... It's a machine code program which can be readily hand disassembled: LDY #0 ...

Wow, very polished!
I like the "parallel universe" and game over effects.
I keep reading the title screen as "TEN/TEN QUALITY" which is true but a little arrogant
Fun game as usual, thanks!