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Imran Nazar ~ عمران نزر

I think it's finally actually done:

It's _so_ slow: the calculations take more than one frame per frame, so it runs at 30fps; this run is mostly taken at Warp speed emulation (10x). Much of that is because I kept BASIC running, to reuse its number output routines.

Somehow this ended up being 800 lines of assembly: gist.github.com/Two9A/8b2f1d6e

I'll find a few spare moments to write up articles on some of the subtleties, expect those in the coming ...months.

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Imran Nazar ~ عمران نزر

Bit late for but managed to scrape together a couple of hours today, so the adventure has started. I'm deeply out of practice... it's taken all that time and over a hundred lines of assembly just to get the empty playing field on screen.

From here, I need: the ball sprites, fixed-point positioning of same, "collision" with the edges and the other side's field, trigonometric reflection with a random offset, ...

There's a ways to go on this.

Screenshot from VICE, the C64 emulator, running code for the initial render of the playing field for my Pongwars implementation. The black and white rectangular areas on-screen are equally sized.
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