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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 320X200X256 graphics (was: Ultima 6)
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Date: 5 Jun 91 01:00:05 GMT
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>2) 3200 color GS game? I don't think there would be enough cycles left to
>run a
>game on par with "Wing Commander" or "Battle of Britain". Maybe "Little
>Brickout". :)
>
>tm@well.sf.ca.us

Little Brickout is written in Pascal.

Their Finest Hour only uses 16 colours in the game itself. Some of the stills
have more, but these are not animated and 3200 can easily handle these (anf be
even better IMHO). The animation will be difficult at 2.5 MHz but not
impossible.

If you can get me the source code, I can hand-compile it into 65816 Assembly
that will work fast. The important thing is to heavily comment the machine
specific stuff and use reasonable variable names.

Wing Commander reminds of Elite for some reason, if you ignore the bits
between games, er...missions.

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