[Coco] RE: Nick's Poll

[Roger Taylor]

At 05:16 PM 11/28/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>A top-notch version of Defender would be cool. The suggestion of a car 
>racing game based on the Gloom-3D engine sounds cool too. My vote still 
>would be for some type of real-time strategy game though, since that's 
>never been done on the Coco before. Someone suggested a writing game 
>engine and that sounds cool too.

The trick to creating high-performance games on the CoCo, escpecially 3-D 
games, is to use as much precalculated/predrawn material as you can.  If 
you can fill up a floppy disk (both sides) with audio and certain types of 
predrawn frames, you can animate the frames instead of using real 3-D math 
to calculate everything.  Certain frames could also be overlayed or mixed 
with other content using tricky XOR, AND, OR logic.

Oh, and try to use the 6309.


{Roger Taylor}
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