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Atari XL/XE Space Harrier Conversion Project
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16th August 2004
After a pause in development, things are moving along again, and I've also found better ways of doing some things:
The graphics format for the objects has been finalised and optimised. They take up more memory than the demo, but are faster to draw, allowing some other nice things to be made possible now. Also, all the frame sizes have been redone so there is no "popup" of objects suddenly appearing in the background.
There's a new method of drawing the backgrounds which now work in a very similar way to the objects.
The man dying routines have been made much more faithful to the original game over the demo. The man will also now trip over bushes, as in the original.
The changes to the background drawing and man dying routines have led to some substantial improvements with which I'm very pleased.
Many more mundane things are going on too, such as re-drawing and re-colouring all the aliens, scenery and backgrounds.
