Re: Prince of Persia for ProDOS? was Re: QIX for ProDOS

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:21:21 AM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, BLuRry wrote:
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> > Mockingboard detection is possible.  Actually, converting the sound 
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> > engine to 100% mockingboard would free up a lot of CPU.  Anyway, for 
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> > music I would just use a lookup table and convert the legacy music data 
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> > as-is.  It would only yield two-voice music, but wouldn't require as 
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> > much code surgery.
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> Well, the intro could be a completely separate module, too.
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> I was thinking of targetting (for a 5.25" edition) two flippies thus:
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> 1A = Startup (including title screen, hardware detection)
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> 1B = Editor
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> 2A = Game (First Half)
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> 2B = Game (Second Half)
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> Both sides of disk 1 would be bootable.
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> I don't know how to pull much of this off - I'd hope I could gather up a 
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> few fans with 65C02 talent! - I do want to do this and would contribute in 
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> any way possible toward it.
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> I wonder what Mechner'd think. :P
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> -uso.

I wonder also.  Probably something along the lines of "Better you than me."  ;-)

-B