Hi there Guys! Well the game I have been coding is now 99% finished! Just a few minor things to do! Nebuloids :-) Edited by - Chaoslab on July 15, 2001 7:44:32 PM

Looks like fun but:

Applet size is HUGE!

and slow the thing DOWN! woah.. moving WAY too fast.. scarily fast in fact..

Other than that, nifty stuff like the graphics.

Mark

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Vector7 Software Engineering
www.vector7.com.au
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fun and addicting!

Neurotic did not understand how to move slowly. You just move the pointer near the spaceship.

Very fun and addicting as say Prod. It''s late, I must sleep so I must stop after 7 levels...

Just one thing : with a lot of spaceships/rocks on the screen, it becomes slower. (I have a fast connection, so the size of the applet don''t affect me)

I have added some better timing code....

So the game runs at a more playable speed on faster computers....

And it was a pain as System.currentMillis() has a resolution of 50 ms which is not good enough for over about 18 fps.

For your peoples info I solved this by starting another thread and using it as a timer and getting it to increment an int every 10 ms which works very well....

And you can press ''M'' & ''m'' to increase and decrease mouse sensitivity.

The final release will be some time before the weekend is out.

And then the high score server next week!

:-)

Email me and I can send you an thread based timer that will auto correct to the right fps, works pretty well. Probably very similar to what you have except it re-adjusts the delay based on overhead.

eric at snowmoon dot com

I wish I could be like you.

Java.util.Timer ( just checked ) appears to be based on Thread.wait() and currentTimeMillis(). These are great, if the underlying JVM supports high resolution on these timer calls. On a system like win98 these utilities could never be used to get better then ~18fps. The timer class that I have developed works quite smoothly up till ~60 events/sec and can work ok up to 100 events/sec even under win98.

The appear for more high level events like running a task once a day, or blinking a cursor 3 times a second. Not for the uber-fast fps flipping most games need.

Hey snowmoon, do you think I could take a look at the source for you timer class?

War doesn''t determine who is right, war determines who is left.

oooo i like, altho the window is too big for me browser to fit onto screen