Date   : Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:36:50 -0000
From   : Daniel Luton <DLuton@...>
Subject: Re: Firetrack

Syncron!!! That was it!

It was real fast, a bit too fast perhaps...but technically it was pretty
impressive for such a machine.

Cheers for that!

<OT> BTW, Tom, how are things@...?  I used to work for Hasbro
Interactive until Infogrames came along and dumped us all :))

-----Original Message-----
From: Seddon Tom [mailto:TSeddon@...]
Sent: 05 February 2002 10:02
To: BBC Micro Mailing List
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Firetrack


Syncron perhaps?

I think Syncron scrolled in 8 line increments, but because it ran at the
frame rate of the display device it was not noticeable.

-- 
--Tom
tseddon@...                      icq 47064827
sheffield england united kingdom planet earth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Luton [mailto:DLuton@...                 ]
> Sent: 05 February 2002 09:59
> To: BBC Micro Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Firetrack
> 
> 
> Ahhh, I remember a game on the Electron that was published by
> Superior...that was a vertical scrolling shooter that was 
> *very* fast and
> *very* smooth...was that Firetrack?  I'm sure it was called something
> different though.
> 
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard_Talbot-Watkins@...     
> [mailto:Richard_Talbot-Watkins@...     ]
> Sent: 05 February 2002 09:21
> Cc: BBC Micro Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Firetrack
> 
> 
> 
> Firetrack is to my knowledge the only commercial title for 
> the BBC which
> exploited a very cunning hardware hack in order to achieve 
> pixel-by-pixel
> vertical hardware scrolling at 50Hz, i.e. very pretty effect 
> at virtually
> no cost.  It was a kind of vertically scrolling shooter in 
> the same vein as
> Xenon on other machines.  I've admittedly never seen it 
> running on a real
> Beeb myself.
> 
> (Still haven't had a chance to finish writing up the 
> explanation of how it
> works... give us a bit of time...)
> 
> --
> Rich Talbot-Watkins,
> SCEE Cambridge.
> Richard_Talbot-Watkins@...     
> All views expressed are mine, not my employer's... blah blah...
> 
> 
>  
> 
>                     Daniel Luton
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>  
> 
>  
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>                     05.02.02 08:55
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>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> I've not seen Firetrack, is it available anywhere as a disk 
> image (with the
> intention of transferring it to a real Beeb) anywhere, to satisfy my
> curiosity?
> 
> What exactly does the program do?
> 
> :))
> 
> 
> 
> 
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