Date   : Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:49:16 -0700
From   : "Ewen Roberts" <ewen_r@...>
Subject: Re: I know Quest ... and some others!!

> His games were usuualy
>(always?) MODE 1 adventures in the Citadel mould, and for the Electron
>versions he used some fiendish technique to split the screen into
>different modes because the Electron ran more slowly in MODEs 0/1/2/3 than
>the others (because the graphics system could steal cycles from the CPU in
>those modes).


As I remember serveral Electron games did that sort of thing, you'd get a
small gameplay area in the centre of the screen surrounded by  moving shapes
which were where the game was storing stuff. In some games you could even
see game graphics there.  I remember being told (by the same sort of friend
that makes up corners in Overdrive) that one of my games had the map for the
game visible on the edge of screen if I could just see it...

(sigh)

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