Starfield demo

[TBCTBC]

Strange, I'm using your version of FunnyMu.
Anyway, here's a third version
In this version I have an array for the y coordinate for every (96) star on the screen.
This way the stars don't repeat down the screen as the old version did.
The random values could use some tweaking though.
One other thing is that because I use only two different speeds of the stars, you can see it as two planes moving on top of eachover.
If I had like ten speeds, it would look much better. Maybe next version

[TBCTBC]

Ok, I made it with four speeds. The code is starting to be a little messy now though
I haven't optimized it in any way either. It looks pretty good now I think.

[MADrigal]

I really dont understand why I still see everything in single colour...

The 4-speeds thing works great though!

[Mobsie]

Hi,

works great, thanks again.
I see some different color but because of the star size is difficult to see.
I use also Funnymu.
Mobsie

[TBCTBC]

I tried FunnyMu in fullscreen mode and it's still difficult to see it blinking actually. You can see though that it looks like a different color if you compare it to the first version where all stars are white.
It probably looks better on the real hardware and a TV.
There a little problem with fullscreen mode and using a dual monitor setup it seems. After I closed funnymu, all my programs switched to my secondary monitor.

[MADrigal]

I think the blinking is simply too fast, and the colours are too similar.

I tried to change the source code a bit, changing colours and using 2 colours only, and the blinking was well visible.

I have to spend some time in reading the source code, hopefully this week.

Thanks much for all your effort, Ola.

[TBCTBC]

Ok, I like the subtle blinking, I don't want it to be irritating and I don't want plain white stars either.
Maybe I'll tweak it when trying on the real hardware.
I'm attaching version 5, I have optimized and cleaned up the code.

[MADrigal]

Got it!

[TBCTBC]

Ok, I have continued programming stars, but this took a while because I had to use some trial and error to find out exactly what I wanted, and also due to some annoying bugs.
I thought I would do some gyruss-type stars this time.
I checked out gyruss for Colecovision (same VDP) here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YddOumoKKfs
but I think my version looks better. There's still some improvements I want to do, like coloring and perhaps a second speed.
The source code is a mess though.

[MADrigal]

Woooow it's not bad at all, I really like it!!

Just needs a few more stars on screen.