Lawless Legends: Ray-casting Apple II game in development

http://www.lawlesslegends.com

by zellyn • 12 years ago

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zellyn• 12 years ago

Note: the development tools (but not assets) are available at the github page: https://github.com/badvision/lawless-legends, along with a tutorial on the raycasting code: https://github.com/badvision/lawless-legends/blob/master/Doc...

mmastrac2• 12 years ago

Interesting to see this take the same approach as Wolfenstein did: each unique column height had its own dedicated blitting function. This was pretty much the only way to get "real time" on a 286-level PC in the past.

kazinator• 12 years ago

This level of 3D was not really done on Apple II's, however. There were wireframe games like Stellar 7 (similar to BattleZone) and flight simulators. Walk-down-the-streets between-buildings type games were 2.5D; no real perspective, 90 degree turns only, from what I remember. These machines run at 1 Mhz, with multiple cycles per instruction, and no cache. Not that it would help, since memory keeps up with the CPU, lock step.

Lawless Legends: Ray-casting Apple II game in development

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