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[DJ Omnimaga]

cool to hear. I hope to be able to integrate celtic II to Metroid II: Evolution, because the insane amount of subroutine is what make the entire game run very slow, especially on the 83+. If it's the total memory usage that cause problem then I can't do much though . Still, taking down the 300 8x12 maps in Metroid II from about 30-40 subroutines to 5 would pwn, same if i manage to have the programs copied to XTEMPxxx all merged together and just recall the part of code i need for my routine

[TheStorm]

will it have different graphics or will it still be ASC II?

[DJ Omnimaga]

I would stick with dual layer ASCII, it looked pretty neat to me. Else, then I would move to xLIB

[Harrierfalcon]

Well so far, here's what I'm planning:

• Dual-layer ASCII graphics, with more graphics manipulation
• Extensive use of Basic's subprograms and my new relatively fast dynamic subroutine system.
• Plenty more powerups--missiles, energy tanks, Space jump, hi jump, beam stacking
• A couple of wavering powerups; morph ball and suits.
• 3 worlds, with X number of rooms each (although my limit per world is 18*18, that should tell you something).
• Obviously, a way longer gameplay time.
• Speed! I did some major testing, Metroid Pi runs much faster when the parser doesn't have to go through all the hard-coded stuff. Therefore, combining subroutines with the ability to change themselves to suit, say, a new beam, or missiles, will be very beneficial. And, not quite so dependent on variables, but rather on constants .

[nitacku]

Maybe part of your engine could be incorporated into the secret project, or vise versa. The tile routine works pretty fast

[Harrierfalcon]

I'll tell you that it involves Celtic2 and prgmZASSEMB1. (That's one of the subprograms of the OTBP assembler).

That program takes the program whose name is in Ans as a string, and returns that entire program as a string. Complete with newline tokens that appear as spaces.

Combined with the program manipulation abilities of Celtic2, it works well and pretty fast.