Re: Bored at work....

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:25:28 PM UTC-5, rich....@gmail.com wrote:
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> Force 7: one of the few (only??) Apple II action games to feature music in the background while playing-- using the standard apple II speaker. Kyle Freeman, you genius. Because of that, I'll forgive you for your port of Renegade on the Apple II. :-)

Jim Nitchalls did that in some of his games (Microwave being one, maybe Bug Attack too?).

I recently ran across one other action game that had running music during game play too, but now can't recall the name of it.  But there are a few.

Pre-shifted, masked, bit-mapped shapes, with page flipping, was the ultimate (if using a full color background and moving). Shortcuts could be had if the background was black, or the shapes were all white (as was done in the early games).  But the pre-shifted shapes in shape tables were a way to get speed. 

I think used a scrolling tile system in the maze part of Alf, but I haven't look at that for so long. 

]HR