What emulator are you using? I'm using VNASCOM in DOSBox, and I don't notice any difference with the new nightly. The speed of H-Tron's 1-player-mode is still only about 2 FPS, and demo mode about 1 FPS.dom wrote:I've had a look at the Nascom and can see the following:
- Printing text is really fast (it pretty much just appears)
- Demo mode Htron is a little sluggish
I've changed the graphics handling to go via gencon rather than have a separate bit of code and graphics appear to be a little faster - the demo mode is now a bit more fluid. The fact that the target is a 3x2 in each character block does make things a bit slower than than the 2x2 targets, but the display routine is so simple that it should make up for it!
However, by the sounds of things I don't think what I'm seeing is representative of the experience that you're seeing - it seems like the emulators (or builds of) both of you are using are significantly slower than one I'm using.
It's probably time for video clips to see if there is a difference!
Is there a way to load a .nas file into MAME?
I forgot to mention that not only plotting is costly, but also the "ray tracing" that needs to be done for the computer player's AI using the point() function. And this is why the 1-player-mode and especially the demo mode run much slower.
