so on the car ride back from south dakota to arizona i realised that the issues i thought i was going to have with variable length lists for bullets and enemies could be avoided by using a different method. before, when an entry was removed from the list, i was trying to copy all the bytes from that spot to the end of the list back one entry and then decrement the variable which held the list's number of entries. however, i realised that, because the order in which entries are displayed doesn't matter, i could instead just copy the last entry in the list over the one to be removed (or just do nothing if the one to be removed is the last entry) and then decrement the length variable.
armed with this new realisation, i booted up axe 1.0 on the car ride back from south dakota and did my best to implement it. i kept getting weird things, like items disappearing or being swapped with the wrong entries, and it's making me think that i've been away from axe for too long and am doing something supremely stupid.
could someone help me out with demo code?
what i would need is something that can add or subtract entries (adding at the end of the list and subtracting from any arbitrary position within it) from a variable length list that consists of 3 byte wide entries.
i promise i wont ask for someone to write the whole program for me
this one bit of code has just had me frustrated for months (and i have no idea why because, in concept, it seems so simple...)
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). but boot xp in a virtual box sometimes when wine just can't manage (hardly ever), and have a large collection of live cd's for other operating systems which i boot when not using my machine.