Aaaaalso in the last weeks and months there was good progress around Pac It!

I am proud especially of the turn disk screen or rather its size. The loader/depacker system stays in memory all the time and should therefore be small – but as Pac It will presumably need two disk sides, it also requires a screen to kindly ask the user to turn his disk. Common programmers might have the practical idea of using the ROM charset and just present a dull text, but no, I was too hardheaded on that one to do that! Now I have my own charset, one sprite, two tiny tables with flash colours and the text/code for the screen in only $02c0 bytes. That simply asks for bragging around. But the best thing is: it works and it is complete! And that makes the whole I/O system complete. Wonderful. Further updates: 

 * After a rather long odyssee the intro music is finally final! Matching the screen to the intro and vice versa was a hell of a task. Done! 

 * Neat little screens now present not only the passwords but also bits of the story of pac it in between the worlds. The story strikes you as being completely rational and well thought-through. Not strange and odd and all mixed up like you think. No no, not at all. Anyway the interlude sequences are also complete and ready to go! As expected there for dozens of insects that required taming, but now the sequences load and they depack and they run through and have nice musics and what else should you ever want in life?

OK. I’m currently working on the core of the game – mainly to get enough disk space out and to optimize loading times, but also to get to terms with all the slime left a little tiny bit undone before. For example I have worked on the score system today and tweaked around with when which player gets what score bonus and when does he receive an extra life for it. Or rather the team, because Pac It is a team game and the players share a common life pool.