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Now up to the demo proper. The initial landscape is drawn (hard-coded routine, not part of the landscape data), the stage indicator on the head-up display is rendered, and things are about to start moving! As I suspected, the demo will comprise much of the remainder of the code, which …

 Transcoding is progressing nicely. The three attract mode screens (challenge, high scores and score table) are now complete, and the game cycles through to start the demo. The sequence and timing of events and colours and graphics all match what’s happening in MAME (graphics corruption aside). I’ve been …

 Not a lot of time so minimal progress, but something to show for it. So far the code has been straightforward to transcode. I think that’ll be the case for quite a while yet, as I work through the attract mode scripts and underlying functionality. I’m not quite …

 Very quick update as it’s late… implementing the script processing and now it clears the rectangles and prints “HIGH SCORE” in attract mode. There’s a bit of jumping around in the code, but on closer inspection it can be unravelled into a single function… at least that’s how …