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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: OS friendly platform games?
- Date: 18 Feb 96 12:54:24 +0000
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- Hi, Adam , on 17-Feb-96 15:24:58 you scribbled....
- >Has anyone ever tried writing a scrolling platform game in an Intuition
- >screen?
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- >It has all the properties that a programmer would need.. If the screen is
- >opened twice as wide and twice as high as the viewing area, then the
- >MoveScreen() function could be used to scroll around in it, and the technique
- >of making two copies of the screen above/below and beside the view can be
- >used so that the screen can 'flip' from the extreme right back to the far
- >left so as to give the illusion of an unlimited playfield size.
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- >I can see there might be a couple of problems; even with AutoScroll turned
- >off and the screen title bar killed (obviously), there's still nothing to
- >stop the user dragging the screen around by holding the Amiga key and the
- >LMB, but perhaps this could be overcome in some way..
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- (SA_Draggable,FALSE)
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- ;)
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- I thinks its only OS 3.0 though..
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- >Does anyone think this is a feasible way of creating a game? Is this how
- >games need to be written in order to be fully OS friendly? They can
- >multitask, use all the features of AGA (without touching a single hardware
- >register), perhaps even use dual-playfield type effects?
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- No reason why not...
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- >.\dam. [Team AMIGA] //\ ad32@brighton.ac.uk \\/
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- Mike
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