has anyone mentioned div or sqrt?

Looks great! Hopefully we can acquire some more information on the hardware.

Viva Cristiano Ronaldo!

Ive always wanted to travel to Portugal .

That's all good, its just because he hasn't finished the clipping on the triangle routine yet.

The GC and xbox were very similar power-wise. Gamecube had better texturing features but the xbox had programmable shaders which allowed better special effects. Both could push the same amount of geometry and both were superior to the ps2. The xbox was basically a PC rig which meant it inherited a lot of PC games as a result. The Wii is more powerful (and more power efficient) than GC/xbox however. More like a more efficient and slightly faster repackaging, with updated graphical features.

From what i can tell the WiiU is superior to the current gen in technology, but its not a great deal in processing power. The WiiU is orders-of-magnitude more power efficient than 360/ps3 im told (which is why it can be so small).

Im sure the WiiU will be able to produce perfectly acceptable next-gen looking games.

It will be interesting to see what sony/ms inherit from Wii/WiiU in their next offerings.

I think case-insensitivity is possibly a good idea if input is calc driven, since it would save tedious typing time? But i guess it comes down to your preference Xeda ... is the necessary work required to implement worth the benefit? - I guess you can see it as both an increase and decrease in flexibility.

Here is a screenie of how the HUD is layed out as such with speed, torpedoes and shields. I believe that the x-wing shields are also configurable fore and aft, and that you can transfer power from engine/lasers to shields and vice-versa ... but i think those are beyond the depth of this project also:



The tie-fighters with have some hull integrity but no shields also.

Each object in the engine has a chunk of data associated with it to describe things like shields and such .

What i find exciting is that the movement routines mean that i can automatically make the 'torpedoes' track and hone-in on their targets by setting their target byte to a valid object. I havent implemented them yet but it is a pretty trivial task .