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A lot of happy memories playing this game on a knockoff Apple II+. To this day it's still impressive to me that they got 3D wireframe rendering (with hidden li
by dbrueck 2y ago
A lot of happy memories playing this game on a knockoff Apple II+.
To this day it's still impressive to me that they got 3D wireframe rendering (with hidden line removal!!) working on a 1 Mhz 6502 chip - that thing doesn't even have multiply and divide instructions.
- outofpaper 2y agoAnd the NES version is bonkers, using sprites to render the vector graphics.
- gabrielsroka 2y agoThe 6502 has shift left and right.
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- gabrielsroka 2y agoSee also https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/back-face_culling.html https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/back-face_culling.html