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Subject: OS friendly platform games?
Date: 17 Feb 96 15:24:58 GMT
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Has anyone ever tried writing a scrolling platform game in an Intuition screen?

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.

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..

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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