Artillery

Devlog

• Trajectory logic flow diagram
  January 20, 2024 by patters#Logic

  At the time of developing this game I used sheets of paper to draw out the logical flow. I briefly tried to use Draw.io but found it so onerous that I soon gave up. Since then I have discovered Mermai... Continue reading

  
• v1.4 Performance optimisation
  May 01, 2019 by patters

  This release focuses on improving performance: All variables re-organised. Single letter names used for the most performance critical variables. Variables are defined in performance order for further... Continue reading
• v1.3 Offscreen arrows
  April 24, 2019 by patters

  Addition of moving arrows to indicate the position of the shots when they exceed the top and far edges of the screen, which a number of people requested in their feedback on the WoS forum . I didn't a... Continue reading

  
• v1.2 Graphics tweaks
  April 19, 2019 by patters

  This version alters the draw method for the castles and flags to use a string variable containing CHR$ control characters to set position and attributes. This renders much more quickly and it is more... Continue reading

  
• v1.1 Improvements
  April 06, 2019 by patters

  Optimised trajectory maths. I used BasinC to profile the code and I was amazed to find that a power of two calculation was slowing the whole loop down substantially. I changed "LET y1=y01+v0y1*t+0.5*-... Continue reading

  
• v1.0 Challenging constraints
  March 03, 2019 by patters#Performance

  Here is the game I set out to remake - Artillery on the Macintosh by Kirk Crawford: My version works within the limitations of Sinclair BASIC in the following ways: For performance reasons the traje... Continue reading