Vic Wolf

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:28 am

Kweepa wrote:I'll probably add joystick support and call it a day

Yes please! No one will believe this was possible in the unexpanded VIC. Maybe it will be the next commercial release on tape?

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:16 am

I was thinking I'd enter it in the 4k minigame competition, and also see if Cronosoft wants to publish it.

tokra · Post by **tokra** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:21 am

Kweepa wrote:Ah yes, I forgot to mention I moved the map key to M

Will try that later @home.

Pressing RESTORE crashes the game? Huh. I deliberately avoided $314. Any suggestions?

Yes, you should avoid $318/319:

0318-0319 792-793 NMI interrupt vector [FEAD]

Shift-C= still works? Stupid default interrupt handler. I guess I'd better install my own timer...?

In normal mode POKE657,128 disables Shift-C=

I've got some space left - I'll probably add joystick support and call it a day.

Maybe add a nice title/loader screen graphic with instructions.
Graphicians please raise your hands

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:28 pm

tokra wrote:Maybe add a nice title/loader screen graphic ...

Similar to this one? [...]

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:35 pm

I didn't know there was a film adaptation of my game already!

Looks interesting - and on Netflix. Yay!

[EDIT] tokra, thanks for the info!

tokra · Post by **tokra** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:19 pm

I noticed in the final version it still can be crashed by hitting RESTORE. Maybe something you'd like to fix before releasing it as tape. It could of course be that you desparately need the 2 bytes at $318/$319

Anyway GREAT game!

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:43 pm

The NMI routine should end with RTI, not RTS ...

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:44 pm

Ooh, thanks!
I'll fix that right now. [EDIT] Done.

tokra · Post by **tokra** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:25 am

Yup! And I noticed you added an arrow to the map indicating where the player is looking. Very nice! Where DO you find the memory left for these features?

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:29 pm

That memory came because I pucrunched the game - I was able to move more data tables into the temporary init code, to be relocated into unused sections of $0-$3ff. Speaking of which, I haven't found a memory map detailing exactly what locations are "free" for games. It's easy if you turn off interrupts - you can use everything except about $1c0-$1ff and $318-$319.

I ended up using $8-$8e, $d8-$f1, $100-$1c0, $200-$264, $2a0-$2df, $300-$310, and $320-$3ff

But why are we still talking in this thread, when there's a shiny new thread devoted to the game?

GreyGhost · Post by **GreyGhost** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:52 pm

Kweepa wrote:Speaking of which, I haven't found a memory map detailing exactly what locations are "free" for games.

I made a list of them not too long ago here.

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... php?t=4738

It's probably not all of them.