[Coco] The Coco Zelda Clone

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bill,

I agree with Steve despite C or ASM you will need video game theory and practice. To Make a fast video game on a 8-bit computer demands lots of practice. If you take wrong decisions at the beginning of project it will impact you later and maybe too late. For example: should one use 8 or 16 pixel tiles?

instead of starting a huge project start with a small game. Its my advice.


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On 2013-07-09, at 6:31 AM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:


Steve,
I program in assembly as well as C (OS9). I have just never written a game engine on the Coco. I haven't used basic since I bought my first EDTASM cart in about 85. Though I have done a little in Basic09 before I learned C.
I'll most likely be fielding some questions. I'm especially interested in Nick's horizontal screen scrolling he's working on at the moment.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bjork <6809er at srbsoftware.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:17 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] The Coco Zelda Clone


Looks like you are on a roll.

A quick question: You used basic in the past but are you going to try 
your hand using Assembly to get the speed you want?

If so, there are many on this list have written a few game in 6809 
assembly.  (like Nick and myself.) We can help.

Steve

On 7/8/2013 8:00 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> The stuff on the "Performance" page is with my live guitars.
> The Zelda clone will be a slow process. I've never written a game engine on
the Coco with the exception of a couple of adventure systems in BASIC, though I 
have played around with them in Visual Basic & 3D FPS stuff. I have a basic idea 
on what I want to do, it's just getting it into code.
> I'd love to have the sources to the original Zelda. It's my understanding that
it is possible to get them for porting but you have to jump through some hoops.
> 
> Bill Pierce


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