2nd of February – Busy…

Doing different things all at the same time.
Well not totally different things – but enough to get scrambled around.

Mostly Vectorblade related though:

• change memory management, since I need more memory in bank 3 and bank 2
• change all vector drawing routines so that vb runs well on ALL (not only 95% of) Vectrex which results in all routines getting slower (see last posting)
• change all drawing routines to take the T1 offset into account (see last posting), also making it slower
• change ALL (nearly all) sprites to compensate the size (which also gives me the opportuny to clean up)
• rewrite VIDE to compensate the faults and be able to generate different sets of SM lists
• rewrite vector routines with new optimizations – which makes them about as fast as befor (phuu!)
• had an idea to make shots faster – saving on a full 4-shot screen about 1300 cycles… but that also needs rewriting of ALL shots
• in between I thought the tile engine needed also sprites, not just tiles… I’m in the middle of adding sprites…
• also I had an idea to also use smartlists in the tile engine – enhanced the tile engine thus…
• got some artwork from Jacek, adding (again) another title screen, also some boss intros might be coming.
• For that I have been writing “special” SM routines, which incorporate brightness information, so that short/long vectors do not differ so much. Dunno if I use them though…
• still working on the “desk” on the “title”
• started “end of game” accounting – which gives additional points depending on what you did accomplish during the game
• implemented most of the rank system

sooo…

While you do not actually see anything – I have been very busy – internally.

Beautifull drawing done by Jacek!