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Ben_Larson

Member Since 5 Nov 2001
OFFLINE Last Active May 23 2012 9:04 PM

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In Topic: SECAM!

Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:27 PM

I love doing SECAM versions! It's like a bonus technical challenge at the very end to see if you can make it look presentable... :)

Yours is actually looking very good... better than my SECAM conversions for Incoming and Panky the Panda anyway. :)

In Topic: One last question for a while - Timing

Mon Dec 5, 2011 6:38 PM

View PostSeaGtGruff, on Mon Dec 5, 2011 5:48 PM, said:

Another method to gain more cycles for your code is to unroll the loop, meaning you get rid of the loop entirely and duplicate the code as many times as needed to draw the desired number of lines.
I did this in 'Incoming' for the main kernel loop actually - in order to get enough cycles for the asymmetrical PF, 2 player objects, missile, and PF/background color changes every 8 lines. It's unrolled into 8-line segments.

In Topic: A Very 2600 Christmas

Thu Dec 1, 2011 8:53 PM

Ok I told myself when I started in October that December 1 was my deadline, so I think this may be the final version - for this year at least. ;)

Changes since last one:

1. Changed Jingle Bells to start on the verse instead of the chorus
2. Slowed down Adeste Fideles aka O Come All Ye Faithful
3. Added Good King Wenceslas

Here's the final track list:

1 - Jingle Bells
2 - Deck The Halls
3 - Silent Night
4 - We Three Kings
5 - Carol of the Bells
6 - Adeste Fideles
7 - Good King Wenceslas
8 - We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Enjoy!

In Topic: Your development environment?

Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:25 PM

OS: Windows 7
Editor: gedit
Emulator: z26
Assember: DASM
Building: Batch file
Version Control: e-mailing stuff to myself :)

I was actually using Ubuntu for a long while till I tried upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04 and it bricked my install. After that I just went back to Windows...

In Topic: A Very 2600 Christmas

Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:14 PM

View Postatari2600land, on Sun Nov 27, 2011 1:51 PM, said:

I kept it on Jingle Bells for background music while I work on stuff, and there was a couple of seconds of silence before it switched to Deck The Halls. I like the music, but it seems a bit weird changing octaves and channels like it does.

Yea, certain notes are only "in tune" in certain octaves, so some songs work better than others. Then you have certain songs which aren't doable period because they contain out-of-key notes (i.e. accidentals) - I actually started on What Child (aka Greensleeves), but had to give up on it for this reason.

I've tried to make some of the octave switching not so noticable but some songs work better than others. We Wish You a Merry Christmas is probably the worst offender so far in this regard... :)

The silence is on purpose, since it seemed kinda weird going straight into the next song...

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