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cbmeeks
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 78 |
Simple (lol) coding questions please!
Been out of the 6502/10 loop for a while and thought I would jump back in and see what I can do. I have a few questions that I can't seem to get answers on. Any help is greatly appreciated.
1) Where can I find a good tutorial/example that shows how to do a simple screen scroll? I realize "simple" is a relative term but what I mean by a simple scroll is that I don't need 8-way (like Turrican) and I don't need to color-shift. My needs are simple. Think Metroid. :-) Metroid is a very basic scroller. Now, I know I need to double-buffer and since I will probably need to scroll in 2 pixel increments, I will need to copy 1000/4 chars per frame. I can cheat a little and save a few lines with a score bar. In theory, I know HOW I should do it but I guess I need that jump-start.
2) Can I wipe out BASIC and use that space (A000-BFFF) to store data? I'm at work now so I can't test. I could store a lot of map data in that 8k.
Thanks!!!!
cbmeeks
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cbmeeks
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 78 |
That makes sense. I don't know what I was thinking.
I was just crunching numbers and realized that I could fit almost the entire map/level data of the entire world (close to 900 rooms) into that 16k. :-)
I guess I will just have to split it and do some loading. But no big deal.
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
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Bank out the Kernal except when you need to load/save. Loading under the Kernal (or the IO area $d000-$dfff) is a bit trickier, since you have to bankswitch, read a byte, bankswitch again, then store that byte, but it's manageable. |
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cbmeeks
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 78 |
Quote: Bank out the Kernal except when you need to load/save. Loading under the Kernal (or the IO area $d000-$dfff) is a bit trickier, since you have to bankswitch, read a byte, bankswitch again, then store that byte, but it's manageable.
Oh, so you are saying that in order for me to load data into the area that contains the actual code to load data, I have to constantly turn the kernal on/off while doing it?
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Mantiz
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Registered: Apr 2006
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Yes, bankswitching is required because otherwise the loaded data will go into the registers mapped at those memory locations. |
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cbmeeks
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 78 |
Cool. Thanks guys.
BTW, *IF* I actually manage to pull off this simple 2-way scroller, I will post a how-to for it.
I mean, you can get some advance code for Turrican but who the hell understands it! lol
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1101 |
dunno if you already found it, but http://codebase64.org/ is a pretty good resource for sample code. |
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TNT
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Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 189 |
Quote: Bank out the Kernal except when you need to load/save. Loading under the Kernal (or the IO area $d000-$dfff) is a bit trickier, since you have to bankswitch, read a byte, bankswitch again, then store that byte, but it's manageable.
No need to switch memory when loading to $e000-$ffff. Saving, on the other hand... |
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cbmeeks
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 78 |
Quote: No need to switch memory when loading to $e000-$ffff. Saving, on the other hand...
@Burglar:
Yeah, I found that one. Great site! If I finish the howto I will post it there.
@TNT:
I would only need to say game states. Unless I want to figure out a password system like the original Metroid. But thanks for the tip!
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 347 |
also look at puterman's tutorial , which is good.. again on the site burg has mentioned.
and
http://oldschool-gaming.com/c64_hex_files.php |
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1160 |
TNT: Heh, I guess was thinking ahead to loading compressed data with LZ77 or similar method (which needs the earlier loaded bytes), since I rarely load anything uncompressed :) |
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