Re: Musing about a possible project...

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, BLuRry wrote:

> All very tempting, but remember that some of these platforms had 
> hardware-managed sprites.  You'd have to do a lot of buffer management 
> to get close to replicating that, so porting will require more than just 
> 1:1 code translation.  One easy solution is to render games with 
> solid-color playfields so that erasing sprites will not require a more 
> expensive memory copy.

Well aware.  I was figuring I'd want to use both screens, memory 
permitting.

> Even saying that, a hit to the framerate would pale in comparison to how 
> awesome a galaga port would be, even if it were not quite as cool as the 
> original.

Yeah.  Galaga was awesome back in the day.  Pity the only official ports 
I've seen were to the 7800, MSX and NES (well, there was an SG-1000 port 
but it was not very accurate, LOL SEGA PORTING NAMCO).

-uso.