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Kroc / elite-harmless

Disassembly (CA65) of the Commodore 64 port of the seminal space-sim Elite, by Ian Bell / David Braben.
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Black Holes #54

Open Kroc opened 5 years ago

Kroc commented 5 years ago

A black hole could exist at the exact centre of each galaxy (0,0 assuming centred co-ordinates). I was thinking of making this an Easter-egg, whereby the black hole is not visible on the charts and you have to move your cursor directly over it to know it’s there. Possibly an expensive high-tech scanner upgrade could make it visible otherwise.

Graphics are an interesting discussion point. It can’t be an outline, because that’s the same as planets. I was thinking of instead re-using a sun but inverting the colours, that is, space would be white [because the field of light & gas swirling around the hole] and the ‘sun’ would be an appropriately black hole, with the requisite gravitational / damage effects already in place.

Kroc commented 5 years ago

NB: If I can control the order of drawing so that the 'dust' is drawn first, then the sun, then the ships; I can optimize the sun-drawing to not merge pixels and instead erase the dust underneath it. This would give the black-hole a completely back appearance without the dust in the way.