[pink^abyss]

Originally Posted by Bartman

Shameless plug This game was done with Visual Studio Code and my Amiga C/C++ Compile, Debug & Profile extension. So don't let anyone tell you you can't do high-quality games for A500 in C.

Right Bartman! Without your tool this would have not been possible. Even the music replayer is done in C.

Some technical infos:

• To achieve high performance the game uses a copperlist to do all blits while the CPU uses the idle DMA cycles.
• Pretracker was used to have minimum chipmem usage (3.7kb) for music
• Between certain levels Doynax is used to decompress new gfx to chipmem as needed.
• For player animation a small asm routine is used to copy new images from fast to chipmem as needed. 180 animation frames are in memory for the two players.
• The game uses 3 chipmem buffers with 256x256 with 5 bitplanes. Two for display and one restore buffer.
• All tiles are placed in fastmem and copied with the cpu to a backbuffer and blitted to the display buffers