Commander X16

 

A 2d physics multi-object collision engine on an 8 bit system, that's actually pretty darn nice even though it's not entirely realistic behavior.  I always find it fun to play around with anything having physics simulation.  It's always more fun when it's less realistic !

48 minutes ago, desertfish said:

A 2d physics multi-object collision engine on an 8 bit system, that's actually pretty darn nice even though it's not entirely realistic behavior.  I always find it fun to play around with anything having physics simulation.  It's always more fun when it's less realistic !

haha, I agree that non-realistic physics can be lots of fun, but this is more broken-physics than cartoon-physics! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out though, very surprised how much I could pack into a frame. When I started I wasn't even sure if I'd be able to get two or three balls bouncing at 60fps. By the time I got all the physics more or less working on 16 balls it still wasn't missing frames, and I managed to pack the whole thing 5 times into *most* frames. (it misses some frames when there's lots of collisions, but I haven't found it to be particularly noticeable).

The physics engine does a lot better when you turn down the velocities and the friction, but then it's not fast enough to feel anything like pool. There's a lot that could probably be done to make the physics engine more efficient though.

Hey trying to find the original developer of this, to dust it off and revise for the newer R45 ROMs.

Looks pretty slick, and had mouse support? Neato.