Re: intro

[Steffen Moeller <moeller@ebi.ac.uk>]

This is a very nice story, I think. I only know the C64 version and unless
the PC version brings extra fun or compatibility (which to my
understanding it doesn't) I would not keep it as such. One could though
offer a variety of parameters to make individual figures faster/ more
intelligent/stronger and besides individual settings allow presettings
accord to match the C64/PC version.

Have you bought a new USB modem and have problems configuring it under
Linux (blind guess)? Maybe together we have a chance to get you connected
again.

Steffen

> > Actually, one other thing - Ronen, where did you get the numbers (movement
> > rate, damage, health, bullet speed) for the creatures in XArchon?  I took
> > screenshots of the original Archon running under a C64 emulator, and
> > measured things like the height of the health bar in pixels, and how much
> > each creature's attack dropped the enemy's health, and came up with quite
> > different numbers to those in XArchon...
> 
> X ARCHON is modelled after the PC version of ARCHON that I had.
> As it turned out, the PC version is the crappiest of all the versions of
> ARCHON
> that ever were.  And as if it wasn't enough that the graphics subsystem was
> way worse on the PC, compared to the C64 and Amiga, the guy who did
> the PC conversion felt it was also necessary to screw up the game with
> stuff like that square-based movement.
> 
> But I haven't found out that other ARCHONs were nicer until about halfway
> through X ARCHON;  and besides, the PC version is the one I set out to make
> a clone of, so that's what I did do in the end.  I do know, however, that
> this
> disappoints a few people on the list.
> 
> So about the numbers, they're loosely based on the PC version..
> I made some alterations here and there, where I thought it would be more fun
> "my way," but basically it's the PC version.
> 
> I understand from this email (and other emails from you) that you're
> changing
> this to be point-based movement, and perhaps C64-based
> damage/speed/whatever.
> That's nice, I'm all for that, but would you consider also keeping the
> current
> behavior?  Maybe have a platform-selection-button, selecting between PC and
> C64
> modes.  Or compile-time option (easier, yuckier).  This is just a
> suggestion.
> 
> Oh well.  Byebye.
> 
> 
> 


    Steffen Moeller <moeller@ebi.ac.uk>    ICQ 37032340