From Richard's C64 blog!
19th August 2017
More action has been taking place today. First of all, Saul suggested that I should reduce the animation speed for the aliens and also the explosion. Basically double the delay of the animation. Also I had a go at setting up level pointers, where after each level advances, the game sets up the next level settings. For example, pick out the chosen alien type, formation, level colour scheme, etc. I tried compressing a test level map, using Exomizer, then imported it into the source code 16 times, to set each level. Sadly this trick didn’t work and caused a memory overflow.
In order to solve this issue. I have decided to make this game multi-load based. This means that after 1 level is complete, the disk or tape image should load the next game file.There is just not enough memory for me to place even 8 level compressed versions of test maps that exceed $0300 bytes (Compressed). I will make sure disk loading will also be SDIEC compatible as well. Tape version is intended to be mastered using Freeload or the Thunderload Multi-Load companion tool.
You will notice a slight difference in the game during this test video of cheat mode below. 🙂
Original URL: https://tnd64.blogspot.com/2017/08/cruiser-x-79-update-10.html