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Re: Assembly Help
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:46 pm
by Ast A. Moore
Bizzley wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:37 pm
Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:12 pm
Hah! Neat. A bit tough to use with custom fonts, though, which was what I initially wrote mine for.
Not really. As long as you're careful on what specific page boundary you put the font then it's just a matter of changing the LD H,n command to the appropriate value. While there are some values you can't use there are others where you don't need to apply the OR n command at all and can reduce the routine to 15 bytes. It's a bit like setting up interrupt vector tables, you tend to pick something and code around it...well at least I do
True. Although with fonts, I only align them with an 8-byte window boundary (to keep the INC L instruction instead of INC HL for speed). That way I only lose seven bytes at most. Besides, I let the assembler worry about where to stick the font. One less thing to worry about.
Re: Assembly Help
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:22 pm
by PeterJ
Thanks for all the replies guys.
Re: Assembly Help
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:23 pm
by AndyC
Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:46 pm
Bizzley wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:37 pm
Not really. As long as you're careful on what specific page boundary you put the font then it's just a matter of changing the LD H,n command to the appropriate value. While there are some values you can't use there are others where you don't need to apply the OR n command at all and can reduce the routine to 15 bytes. It's a bit like setting up interrupt vector tables, you tend to pick something and code around it...well at least I do
True. Although with fonts, I only align them with an 8-byte window boundary (to keep the INC L instruction instead of INC HL for speed). That way I only lose seven bytes at most. Besides, I let the assembler worry about where to stick the font. One less thing to worry about.
I normally find I have enough 256-byte aligned tables that adding another doesn't actually lose any bytes.
Re: Assembly Help
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:45 pm
by Ivanzx
Aaaaaaaaand, what game are you coding?
Re: Assembly Help
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:46 pm
by namco
Here's my RST command for Print At. I'm currently using this on the ZX Spectrum Next to check on the number in my sprite rotation.:
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ld a,22 ; Set A with PRINT AT command
rst 10h ; Call
ld a,10 ; Set A with 7 (Y coord)
rst 10h
ld a,10 ; Set A with 8 (X coord)
rst 10h
ld a,0
ld a,(rightplayer)
ld bc,0
ld c,a
call 6683
Re: Assembly Help
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:01 pm
by PeterJ
Ivanzx wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:45 pm
Aaaaaaaaand, what game are you coding?
Its a simple platform game. Nothing that will shake the world, but I try and get back to developing it when I can.
Re: Assembly Help
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 5:34 pm
by Cosmium
PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 1:25 pm
Hi,
I'm coming back to working on my game, and because I have left it so long I seem to have forgotten so much!
Hi Peter - I know the feeling! Six months ago I was in a similar position to you and a bit rusty on the Z80 having not touched it since the early 1990s. But it's funny how quickly it comes back. Really enjoyable to be back on this 8-bit processor.
Good luck completing your game!
Cosmium