Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Nigel Critten Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: 8 week challenge Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 14:01:29 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 34 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-1213.duckdive.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Well everywhere you look geese are getting fat, people are putting pennies in old men's hats, a chubby faced chap with a red outfit on is making a list and checking it twice, so that can only mean one thing. CHRISTMAS... So to get in the Christmas spirit I would like to wish everyone here a Merry Christman and a Happy New Year, once again you have helped me with my problems and I hope that I have helped at least one person in return, glad to see the newsgroups are still going strong... I'm coming to the end of my PC game so its time to turn on the Yaroze again and dig up my 8 week challenge again. The reason for this is that years ago Chris Butler was given 8 weeks to write Commando on the C64, he had to write a sprite multiplexor to get more than 8 sprites on screen and everything else all in 6502 assembly, he was working fulltime on it, I'll only be able to spend my evening and spare time on the project, but I think we have things easy, no need for sprite multiplexors the Yaroze is able to throw hundreds of sprites about every frame, it'll be in C not 6502, which should save time as well, so I'm going to pick an Arcade game and get the graphics from MAME direct from the ROM, so thats another saving I don't need to draw the sprites, but I will aim to get all the levels into the yaroze in one load same as Commando (Chris Butler has to drop a couple of levels to fit the music in, apparently they were complete but there was no room), so late January early Feburary, I'll get started and see how far I get in 8 weeks, I need to pick a game probably from the Arcade, was thinking about a C64 game but that wouldn't be a challenge on the memory so its going to be Arcade :) ... I hope to keep you upto date on my members website. Cheers and Merry Christmas Nigel