Sine wave scrolling on Pac-Man hardware

[Hurray Banana]

Seen that,it represents a titanic effort in coding. Shows what you can do withgreat tools, skills and time

 

[philmurr]

but my focus is arcade hardware. I've just got back on with a different project, might have something special to show in the new year.

Sounds very interesting Eric...

 

[Hurray Banana]

but my focus is arcade hardware. I've just got back on with a different project, might have something special to show in the new year.

Sounds very interesting Eric...

definitely

, but so complicated

 

[Missile5]

Impressive stuff! Transparency effect looks great also. You could be the man to make a non-flickering version of Pacman for the Atari 2600. I don't think anyone ever managed it.

Thanks, never looked at the 2600. I think you can do true multiplexing (it only has two sprites so you kind of need to) on it, timing is incredibly tight. I might one day look at software on it, but my focus is arcade hardware. I've just got back on with a different project, might have something special to show in the new year.

Looking forward to seeing your new project. Atari has 5 sprites , but only 2 are big enough for ghosts/pacman. Maybe you can enlarge the others using zoom feature though? Not sure.

non-flickering version of Pacman for the Atari 2600

still impressive though that flickering homebrew version which was made:

Nice find. Looks like it took until 2015 though! What I don't understand though, is the original (much maligned) Atari 2600 version of Pacman, flickered the sprites anyway - just slower - to get more sprites on screen. Why didn't they use this technique?