SO IT'S BEEN A WHILE since I've been very active on AA; but in the last few weeks I have again started some fairly intensive 2600 development. I'm sorry to say, Nathan, that it isn't RPS - which is still on my slow-moving to-do list - but rather a project that I toyed with years ago: a semi-faithful port of...
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WHILE I'M HOME SICK FROM WORK I might as well take the chance and try to make some progress on RPS:
Not a lot of changes, but since the previous version was so rough, I thought I'd put this out there.
Cleaned up all scanline counts - now at 270 on all screens and transitions appear to be rock solid. Also got new credits...
Dug up old PMs from Nathan and saw that he had made a title screen graphic for it already, so I added that in:
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This required expanding the ROM to 8K, so that's the other thing I did - which was a giant pain, as it always is. In the process I screwed up all the scanline counts,...
SO I ADDED YET ANOTHER console to my (unwieldy) collection: a 7800!
And the totally sweet game Pole Position II.
I've been resisting acquiring this for a few years now, but my resistance finally melted when, out of the blue, someone offered to sell me their CC2. After hemming and hawing for a week or so I decided, in the end,...