Excellent! Now, you can create a new "Software Releases of 2012" thread in General Topics, and add this entry as the first one of the new year (I - I - MMXII ).
Re: I-I-MMXII. I wrote the date that way because my text decompression tree has to fit into 128 bytes, so I can only use 64 characters, which precludes using digits. I think it looks classy though.
Looking nice! However I needed to activate 24K RAM expansion for it to work. With 16K I get a CPU JAM at $64B8 in VICE. Maybe this is due to the decruncher? If you pack a game tightly into 16K there is no room for the decruncher to do its work. It looks like you still used PUCRUNCH on this?
Mayhem wrote:Choices, choices... which version do I use for GB20?
I'd vote for both! The GB64 also has different variations of games if they are available. Let the user have the choice. Same goes for "Number Game" with the compatiblity issues. I'd include both the original and VICE 2.3-compatible version in the archive.
Yes, for the proportional font version I had to increase the memory requirement to 24k as stated in the first post. Seems a shame but with 7k of compressed text, a 4k graphics screen, and about 1k for the font and associated code, it's not surprising.
I used pucrunch because it's what I have installed on my development machine.
I wouldn't add it to the gamebase just yet. I'm anticipating bugs (there must be some...) which I'll have to fix, and in the meantime I'm making some small tweaks (like line spacing, kerning, and a status line). Perhaps in a couple of weeks?
Heh, don't worry, I've updated versions of other games before, especially Robert's, when they've needed a new version. It's partly so I know it's there and I don't forget about it heh...
New version (D), as of this morning:
status line
9 pixel high font (with proper descenders)
brief mode (starts verbose)
exomized, rather than pucrunched
darkatx has found a bug in the game which I will fix tonight.
Semi-spoiler below - select to reveal: In the meantime, don't pick up the egg within 9 turns of dropping it.
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