[Coco] "Sprites" on CoCo?

[Glen Hewlett]

Hi Andrew,

I’m always glad to hear someone has enjoyed the Pac man Blog.  I always planned on sharing everything I’m learning about the CoCo as I work on the transcode.  The main section of the code is done, other then some more optimizations.  I pretty much have the audio worked out and I’m just fighting with getting the compiled sprite routines on screen properly and trying to optimize them on screen as much as I can.  In fact John Kowalski (sock master) just commented on my last blog entry with a tip to make the compiled sprites even faster.  Which means I’m going to have to go through and see where I can optimize my compiled sprite code with his new ideas.

All great stuff, but more work just when I thought I was finally seeing a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel something else pops up.  It’s all good, except I’m starting to get burnt out, it’s getting close to 6 months for this project so far and the weather outside is getting nicer.  I was hoping I’d be on to transcoding another classic old arcade game by now.  Oh well, I guess with the next project I should be able to work out the CoCo graphics and sound parts much faster…

I will be uploading all my source code and tools for the Pac Man transcode when I’m done on the coco Archive like I did with Space Invaders.  I do like your idea of putting all the blog entries in PDF format for anyone to learn from.  I’ll have to think about what is the best method when I get to that point.  Please remind me if I forget.

Cheers,
Glen

> On May 9, 2017, at 1:45 AM, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Glen,
> 
> I briefly read some of your blog about "transcoding Pac Man" - amazing! Can I ask a favor from you?
> 
> When you get this whole thing completed, can you in some manner archive everything and provide it to the CoCo community? Maybe a github repo with PDFs of the blog posts, images, code files, etc? I think it might be a fantastic resource for CoCo game developers, or just for fun reading (ok, I got a weird sense for what is "fun").
> 
> Anyhow - this is an amazing project; I can't wait to see the conclusion!
> 
> Andrew L. Ayers
> Glendale, Arizona
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