What needs to be done
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SCROLLING!!!!!!! - Fix pngwen's pcx rendering code it dose not render large relolution pcx files well at all! almost done
- tweak animation frame perloop and make the dpad controls a case switch (look at commander keen code?) and vsync horizontal animation
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movement and player movement when reaching edge of map - sprite rendering
- text box rendering
- text rendering
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YAY! map loading - ~~YAY! wwww map rendering~~~
- map and item interation
- item inventory~
- ==working on extending==
- Memory management [EMS + XMS] done but not tested...
- case switch with keyboard code
- when your holding 2 arrow keys and a key is released the keyboard controller dose not read input from the port anymore for some weired reason
- masking layer! [i think this is not easy to accomplish!]
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8088 detection to turn off vsync! - very important! optimize draw row and draw col
- Study verge2's map system,
- save feature!
- also important interperator! and possibly custom map system
- also important lua scripting system!
- extend the map system!
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opl2/3 audio!!!! - engine core!
- ==working==
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MOST important! FUCKING MASSIVE DATA MANAGEMENT!!!
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MUSIC PLAYBACK!!!! WWWW
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basic SFX from opl2 + pc speaker!
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clean up repository after event 1.
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script system for text and interaction
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====00 IMPORTANT! 00==== AS PART OF FINISHING THE GRAPHICAL LIB. Make a palette manager that updates the display palette with the pallet of images and sprites. in a stack and reuse same colors in the pallette on the image by changing the image's values to the matching color.
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Use a little database to keep track of the images loaded and have manipulated the display pallette.
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fix any bugs found
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make the game wwww
get dos_sj.rar It may be very useful to us...