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thesuperfrog
Registered: Oct 2016
Posts: 3 |
Script Language
Hi all,
have you ever used a script language to create a game?
I'm very courious to know if it could be possible make the porting the lua on c64.
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648 |
http://www.compuphase.com/small.htm
...which leads to this page:
http://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm
..maybe? :) |
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j0x
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 215 |
If I'm not mistaken, Small (the scripting language) is now known as Pawn: http://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm
I once did a music routine with a scripting language. Tunes were really small in memory (including runtime), but heavy on the cpu time. |
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El Topo
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 43 |
I don't want to sound like an ass but isn't C64/C128 BASIC a scripting language? :) |
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thesuperfrog
Registered: Oct 2016
Posts: 3 |
Quote: I don't want to sound like an ass but isn't C64/C128 BASIC a scripting language? :)
But i'm trying to adopt/create someting more modern.
i would like to experiment the idea to use a 16bit opcodes with registers based instructions. I'm thinking to translate this instructions with relative 6010 opcodes. on top use a language like lua.
An evolution of sweet16 but without a vm, just translate in 8bit opcodes. |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1078 |
Quote: http://www.compuphase.com/small.htm ... apparently its called "pawn" now (not sure if that is better to google for... =P)
Thank you. "pawn scripting language" gives plenty of relevant hits, so yes, that was a good name change :) |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1078 |
And as for scripting languages on the C64, I've experimented a bit with it, but in the end I just settled on using C for those parts that don't need the performance of asm. Since projects are limited to a few dozen kB of code you don't really bump into the problems that large C codebases struggle with. The only practical drawback I've found is that, at least cc65, generates code that's a little more bloated than a small VM interpreter or hand written asm. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386 |
why not simply use BASIC for scripting? :) |
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335 |
Because its syntax sucks? ;) |
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Martin Piper
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 722 |
And the BASIC interpreter sprays all over large areas of memory, especially zero page. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386 |
easy enough to save/restore that when needed :) |
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