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Another / Out-of-This World Demake for Apple II+
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by Vince "Deater" Weaver (vince@deater.net)
http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/ootw/
Disk and LZ4 routines by qkumba
+ The game "Another World" was released in 1991.
Written by Eric Chahi.
It was eventually ported to many systems (I played it on IBM PC).
It even got an Apple IIgs port (the IIgs is 16-bit with fancy
graphics and sound). However you couldn't play it on
earlier Apple II systems... until now.
+ I was inspired to do this by this amazing PICO-8 version of:
https://liquidream.itch.io/another-world-survival
and thought the Apple II lo-res palette (15 colors, 40x48 graphics)
might be just barely enough to do it justice.
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Game controls:
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Use WASD keys to move, also arrow keys where available.
This is tricky as the original Apple II keyboard is very
simplistic so it's hard to get auto-repeat or multi keypress.
Spacebar is action.
During the intro, you can press R to make it repeat forever.
Joystick support: none yet?
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Development notes:
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Memory map:
00 zero page
01 stack
02 ????
03 nibble table/disk data
04-07 GR page0
08-0b GR page1
0c-0f offscreen data ($c00 = disk load buffer)
10-13 offscreen data2
14-16 loader
17-89 program/compressed-data (30.25k)
90-bf currently decompressed level data (12k)
c0-cf I/O
d0-ff ROM
Memory squeeze!
10,748 over all graphics in
10,734 over remove extraneous blank bg image
8,658 over re-arrange memory map, 42k avail now
8,562 over move gr_make_quake out of common code
8,374 over remove extraneous code (mostly put_sprite_flipped)
5,469 over allow changing bg on fly in sequence
4,122 over modify cyan frames to be on fly
2,749 over do same for zappo routines
2,493 over squish disk loader vars to page 3
2,165 over horrible hack to auto-go to next image in sequence
2,114 over move bg loading into seq
2,053 over make elevator indicator a loop
1,347 over use LZ4 instead of RLE
Gave up, see if we can compress in chunks and decompress, sort of like
my chiptune player does.
Let's take a 12k region of memory = $3000
$C000 - $3000 = starting at $9000
ID1 = 1461 2143\
ID2 = 1759 2687|--- together in 01
ID3 = 1195 1879/
ID4 = 2514 8280\--- in 04
ID5 = 1947 3492/
ID6 = 2584 3610\ --- in 06
ID7 = 2834 3606/
ID8 = 3705 4918 | -- in 08
ID9 = 4494 5901\ -- in 09
ID10 = 3397 5558/
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25890 12k