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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2016-01-17 06:33:59 -0500
committerB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2016-01-17 06:33:59 -0500
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parent7b2440363630fc413f7d6540c9c47f521aa6c912 (diff)
downloadtaipan-e033d3cecc1707419525382f4635fcbc54df1e39.tar.gz
save a few bytes, use a proper loop for flashing enemy ships
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@@ -114,10 +114,7 @@ slower, and the prompt timeouts will be 20% longer (1 sec => 1.2 sec). I
don't think this is a real issue (it's not like Taipan is a fast-paced
arcade game).
-Bugs! At least these:
-
-- Exiting the game (Play again? N) needs to at minimum restore the
- original text/background colors.
+BUGS! At least these:
- The BSS can overlap the start of the title screen (it's very close
anyway). Consequences: There is a momentary graphics glitch when the
@@ -160,7 +157,9 @@ Bugs! At least these:
- One of my playtesters reported that, when running away from combat, it
said 4 billion ships were attacking (number of ships must have gone
- negative). I was never able to reproduce this.
+ negative). I was never able to reproduce this.... but another playtester
+ reported that (in a later version), the number of enemy ships suddenly
+ jumped to 6000+ during a fight, so there's something hinky there.
- After a fight, "Arriving at Manila" or such will sometimes appear on the
fight screen without clearing it first (ships still visible).
@@ -333,7 +332,7 @@ Other things that need doing to the code:
4 digits there, 9999trillion would be the max. Or, abbreviate "billion"
as "bil", allowing 4 more digits. "99999999 bil" would be 99 quadrillion.
-- Size optimization. Right now, the executable is almost 28K of code. I'd
+- Size optimization. Right now, the executable is almost 30K of code. I'd
like it to at least fit on a 16K cartridge. A lot of the C code is
redundant, and some things can be rewritten in asm if need be. I've
already eliminated all uses of printf() and its ilk, which removed 2K