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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
De-Exomize directly to color RAM?
1) Can I achieve this with the 'sfx' command?
2) Can I do it with the 'mem' command and the decruncher sources included in my project?
3) Is it impossible, i.e. am I forced to decrunch the data somewhere else and copy it to color RAM afterwards? |
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421 |
What you're describing is pretty much exactly what I do in Donkey Kong Junior. |
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j0x
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 215 |
Isn't this risky? Assume you want to fill $d800-$e100 with $01. Exomizer (I'm assuming it's decompressing forward) will probably write $01 into $d800 and then make a copy of length $8ff. However, the value read from $d800 (and onward) and copied may be $f1, not $01, which will corrupt your bitmap data.
If the decompression happens backwards, the same applies, except your screen data may get corrupted because of the high bits of $d800. |
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Mixer
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 422 |
Cat loses its skin a few times. Risk is when there are unknowns. |
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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
I tried method #3, which I'm happy with, but the unpacker's code overwrites some data that I need in the area $02A7 - $03FB (a tape loader).
I guess there's no way to move the unpacker somewhere else without compiling it myself, right? |
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spider-j
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 444 |
If you're not sure how to use exomizer source I made a really easy readme/howto with example files for acme a couple of years ago (the file link in the first post):
http://www.forum64.de/wbb3/board25-coder-unter-sich/board308-pr..
(while it's a german forum the actual howto is in english) |
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ruk
Registered: Jan 2012
Posts: 43 |
As long as you don't load your data in I/O-space you should be fine. E.g if having load-address set to $d804 the crunched data's upper nibbles will be garbled. Decrunching to $d800 from somewhere else should be OK though methinks but it will be glitchy as Algorithm said, if not using hires bitmap mode or disabled display.
Use -Di_table_addr=<address> to specify where exomizer can store its decrunch table. Defaults to tape buffer area. Size is 156bytes. |
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421 |
Of course the screen has to be disabled when running the exomizer decrunch. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11108 |
why? just setup $01 correctly? |
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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
Even though the lowest address used by my data is $C000, the decruncher zero-fills the memory all the way up to $0801 (or so)! This prevents me from moving the decrunch table to $1000 or whatever. It's also annoying because it takes time. Can the zero-filling be disabled?
Thank you.
PS:
Here's my data
programma.prg ($C000 - $C080)
immagine.scr ($D000 - $D3E7)
immagine.bmp ($E000 - $FF3F)
immagine.col ($D800 - $DBE7)
Edit: immagine.col is actually $1800 - $1BE7, then my program moves it to $D800. Perhaps I was wrong and the zero-fill doesn't occur. I'm looking into it. |
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TSM
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 42 |
Solved!
I put the .col file at $9800 and the decrunch table at $1000. The speed has increased as well.
Thank you all! |
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