Post by: Halifax on October 22, 2006, 11:44:00 am
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 22, 2006, 01:29:00 pm
, start small tho then later add more stuff and remember to work with one thing at once :)
Post by: Halifax on October 22, 2006, 02:30:00 pm
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 22, 2006, 02:36:00 pm
Post by: Halifax on October 22, 2006, 02:43:00 pm
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 22, 2006, 02:50:00 pm
Post by: Halifax on October 22, 2006, 02:55:00 pm
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 22, 2006, 03:41:00 pm
Post by: Halifax on October 23, 2006, 02:32:00 pm
A son named Anahis was once banished by his father, Ejaran, 12 years ago. Anahis did not seek revenge. He sought compassion and love from his, so distant, father. For 11 long years he roamed the paths outside of the kingdom, only to be denied acess time and time again. Anahis soon found a girl that he could confide in. Jacey, the young girl, was not after Anahis' love, she wanted him because of his position in Ejaran's Family. Jacey held a grudge for 14 long years, after her dad was brutally murdered by Ejaran himself, and it grew after her husband died in war fighting for Ejaran. Anahis, not knowing anything about life, because he was banished at 11 years old, and nothing about what to feel, was ready to listen and do whatever anyone told him was right. The timing was ripe as the Julimas kingdom was currently entangled in warfare with Ejas and Trisium kingdom. Ejaran's kingdom was crumbling and Jacey wasn't about to let her chance die of repaying Ejaran for her deep sadness.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 24, 2006, 03:11:00 am
Post by: Halifax on October 24, 2006, 12:20:00 pm
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 25, 2006, 09:11:00 am
Post by: Halifax on October 25, 2006, 02:56:00 pm
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 30, 2006, 05:13:00 am
, thats the pic I used btw: http://www.bretagne.com/var/plain/storage/images/media/images/frehel/22208-1-fre-FR/frehel_large.jpgmaybe spellshaper can convert it
Post by: Halifax on October 30, 2006, 09:24:00 am
Edit: OMG !! Mines is too
Edit(again):Also I got the walking engine working with under 330 bytes of code and now all I need to do is put in map scrolling and NPC detection and then I may post a short demo later on this week
Post by: tr1p1ea on October 31, 2006, 02:40:00 am
.Spelli has taken over, possessed everyone cept me! Prolly cause my nick mesmerizes him! :)
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 31, 2006, 03:13:00 am
and tr1p rules :D
his nick didnt got possessed!
Post by: Halifax on October 31, 2006, 03:46:00 pm
But all that fun will end when I finish the demo cause then it is back to the sprites, sprites, and more sprites :(
Post by: Halifax on November 01, 2006, 07:17:00 am
Post by: Halifax on November 05, 2006, 07:18:00 am
Post by: bfr on November 05, 2006, 11:21:00 am
Post by: Halifax on November 05, 2006, 03:25:00 pm
Post by: bfr on November 05, 2006, 04:24:00 pm
Makes hl point to the address of my_label (and loads hl with the address my_label). If you wanted to display that address, then after doing ld hl,my_label you could do:
bcall(_DispHL) (or BCALL _DispHL or whatever you use...)
If you're trying to go to that label, then you would do:
jr my_label
Does that help?
Post by: Liazon on November 06, 2006, 09:01:00 am
however:
;header goes here
progstart: ;beginning of program, 0 bytes from $9d95 <-ASM program starting point
.db 0,0,0,0,0,0 ;define some bytes
my_label: ;label
inc a ; command
Relative to progstart, what is the RELATIVE address of my_label?
answer:
7
Post by: Halifax on November 06, 2006, 10:31:00 am
Post by: Liazon on November 06, 2006, 12:07:00 pm
sorry if that was a bit complicated
Post by: Halifax on November 06, 2006, 12:55:00 pm
Post by: Liazon on November 06, 2006, 05:30:00 pm
Keep in mind that if your table is stored in RAM (saferams for example), you can also change the values stored in the table. This form of self modifying code is useful, but you can shoot yourself in the foot if you're not careful. in general, SMC is frowned down upon, but it can definitely save size and speed in RAM programs.
As for your speed issues, there is no multithreading atm for z80 calcs. You must design your code to deal w/ that. Basically, if the person moves, just move them a bit, go check on the AI, and then loop everything from teh beginning again. The speed of the z80 + ASM will allow you to cycle through the player and AI rather quickly, provided you make sure the event handlers are not too complicated. If you end up doing too much during one key press, you don't have time to get to the AI.
#1 tip: don't use bcalls! they are generally bulkier because they are a part of the TIOS, and are designed to handle events w/ many possible cases. Write your own or borrow someone else's code, provided you understand how it works, relatively well.
Also Iline:
http://www.geocities.com/calcul831415/help/83psysroutines.zip is the official TI system routines guide for 83+ series calcs. It has basically all the bcalls you'll want. It explains what they do, as well as inputs, outputs, and registers destroyed. A bit of warning though, iirc, some of the routines have incorrect info, but it'd probably appear obvious if the emu crashed.
my suggestion is that if you're only drawing horizontal and vertical lines, write your own routine that only does those. It will be much faster because it doesn't have to check for clipping, calculate slope, mess around too much with pointer arithmetic, etc. It'd probably be faster than iline. Otherwise, look for a line routine on TI calc.
btw, questions are always good. I don't mind pointing you in the right direction, and eventually you'll figure out where to look for answers, and you probably won't need to ask questions
Post by: Halifax on November 07, 2006, 09:50:00 am
Post by: Liazon on November 07, 2006, 11:58:00 am
Routines and data are generally put after the main routine. The main routine should typically be a closed loop. The main function will control entry and exit of the program. In between, it directs how your subroutines(bcalls, functions, what ever you want to call them) will be used to achieve the goal. Sometimes data should be put w/ code, provided there's no way for the calc to proceed to the data and treat it as executable.
Typically:
lable_routine_name:
;some code here
;typically you use the registers and do something w/ them, assuming the program put in the right inputs
ret
And in your main program:
;load inputs into registers
call lable_routine_name
;when the routine is done, it comes back here and does next command
It's as simple as that.
if you read the instruction set provided in ASMin28, it will explain how call simply means push pc <-program counter/address of current command, jp lable_routine_name
ret <- pop "some register pair", jump there. It'd not exactly what those two do, but that's the gist of it.
Post by: Halifax on November 16, 2006, 03:44:00 pm
Update:
I have finished a tilemapping engine which isn't deadly fast and I am planning on improving. It is just a little something I made in the past 1 1/2 weeks. The engine is bloody hard to make though with the walking and I have been working on that a lot but I can't get it to work uhhhhh frustrating anyways what do you guys want smooth scrolling or once end of map reached switch to appropiate map??
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 16, 2006, 04:33:00 pm
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 27, 2006, 05:25:00 am
(I hope this post wont land in resident evil forum again...)
Post by: Halifax on November 27, 2006, 05:29:00 am
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 27, 2006, 05:40:00 am
EDIT: still seem to be online
Post by: Halifax on November 27, 2006, 07:48:00 am
Post by: Delnar_Ersike on January 02, 2007, 02:59:00 pm
Progress?
Post by: Halifax on January 03, 2007, 01:29:00 pm
not particulary
Post by: Delnar_Ersike on January 03, 2007, 03:51:00 pm
no, really, I was bored out of my calc (before it crashed, that is <_<
) because there weren't any more good RPG games out there and I didn't know which one of my programs to work on. The only reason I actually used my calc is RealSound -.-
... so *Delnar_Ersike
Post by: Halifax on January 04, 2007, 01:56:00 pm
Well you can look forward to The Massacre I game I am producing with RPG elements in it and it will be sure to keep you from bored out of your calc.
Post by: Delnar_Ersike on January 04, 2007, 04:57:00 pm