Mono-Key King

Almost didn't make the 3rd level but 2 didn't seem enough so I added the 3rd.

Challenges:

automatically moving conveyor belts

Comparison to the original

Barrels

Firefoxes

Fireballs

Hammers

Scoring

Falling

Rivets

Conveyor belts/concrete piles

Levels

TBD

Space was at a premium. I didn't want to store the splash screen as an RLE-encoded 

bit-encoded. wrote it myself

Original: literal stored in the asm

Took too much space. (show your work)

Worked with Gemini to come up with a RLE compressed version. Its code was ok, but I subsequently improved it (see later entries)

cpu.exe vs virtualT

Once I decided to join the jam, I thought about all the "moving parts" that would have to be in play: barrels, Mario, er...other stuff... Look, I never really played Donkey Kong so my knowledge was mostly cultural rather than personal. 

I watched a BUNCH of videos about DK play throughs, and some level-specific videos. I read a lot about the algorithms, even looked at some code.

From previous experience I realized I wouldn't be able to use BASIC on the Tandy 200 - it would be just too slow. So I decided to write it in (8085) Assembly Language. 

I've written _some_ assembly code, but not a lot. Only 386 professionally, and very little 8085 at all, so it was definitely going to be a challenge.