Re: Raycasting 3D demo disk

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

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> > You might want to contact Blurry, at
> > http://brendan.robert.googlepages.com/
>
> His 3d demo (in lores) was in the "other"
> section in the small frame on the page,
>  but the "other" page is broken now..
>
> Rich

Yeah, some turd started trying to play "guess the password" with
various remote access ports in my home network, so I shut off all port
forwards until they get a life and find something better to do.  This
unfortunately included taking the apache server that hosted part of my
homepage offline as well.

Wow, is all I can say.  I started implementing a raycaster using lo-res
as well, as Rich said -- and had gotten stalled because of logical
clipping errors (which junked up display from time to time).  However,
I can say you completely blew my experiment out of the water.  Great
stuff!!!  I was hoping for my own endeavor to add tile support, but was
assuming it was completely impossible to do while maintaining a decent
framerate.  And not only did you manage a decent framerate but also
JOYSTICK support!  :-O  Crazy.  Can you make //e keyboard support
configurable so that joystick support can be disabled to save some
cycles?

My only recommendation is to go with little/no sound to save cycles and
use an interrupt-driven mockingboard routine for music/sfx later on.
I've written one and now that a2gameserver is stable can test it with
my //e for whenever you feel you want a copy.  Maybe you can pause
playback for incidental SFX like "THWACK!" if the person smacks
face-first into a wall (and Mahon's DAC522 would be a great candidate
for crystal-clear SFX).   Otherwise, I think playability would be more
easily maintained if you had wider rooms, since the tight corners make
it a little tricky to move around.  But who am I to complain?  This
thing ROX!

Also, look for "Way Out" by Sirius software.  Sometimes it's attributed
to the cracker "Aldo Reset" who took their name off of the title like a
true punk.  If you can't find it, I'll gladly send a disk image your
way.

Great stuff!