I just saw this youtube video by Retro Hack Shack where he talks about how David Crane was able to store the map of all the screens for the game Pitfall! on a cartridge with so little memory (just 4k) using pseudo-random numbers. It's kind of a neat trick, and it struck me that might come in handy in QB64PE, all you'd need to do is feed a specific number to the RANDOMIZE statement, right?
Anyway I just thought I'd share a link to the video, that opens to the point in the video where he talks about it (the whole thing is an interesting watch):
Atari VCS/2600 - 10 TECHNICAL Things You Didn't Know
Enjoy!
PS If anyone is interested, Pitfall! is a great old school game that I don't think I've ever seen done in QB64PE! (Pitfall II as well, now that would be a challenge!
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Anyway I just thought I'd share a link to the video, that opens to the point in the video where he talks about it (the whole thing is an interesting watch):
Atari VCS/2600 - 10 TECHNICAL Things You Didn't Know
Enjoy!
PS If anyone is interested, Pitfall! is a great old school game that I don't think I've ever seen done in QB64PE! (Pitfall II as well, now that would be a challenge!
)