Pacman Demo
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Baggers69 said:
Hadn't thought of that
lol
Not an update but just wanted to give a shout out for the Mame debugger it's pretty much awesome, love it.
Not got anything I want to show on the demo yet but coming along nicely.
I'm finding the hardest thing is to remember the z80 instruction set, used to know it like the back of my hand but my short term memory issues are causing me no end of grief.
My code is probably horribly inefficient and very clunky because I can't remember the best ways to handle certain circumstances.
Got a A level computing mock exam to invigilate this afternoon so will try and make some more progress then.
Not got anything I want to show on the demo yet but coming along nicely.
I'm finding the hardest thing is to remember the z80 instruction set, used to know it like the back of my hand but my short term memory issues are causing me no end of grief.
My code is probably horribly inefficient and very clunky because I can't remember the best ways to handle certain circumstances.
Got a A level computing mock exam to invigilate this afternoon so will try and make some more progress then.
The MAME debugger is the single best piece of software I've ever used in my life, period.
Without it my life would be but a hollow, empty existence!
Grab the official Zilog Z80 user manual to help out with the instruction set.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc="s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zilog.com%2Fmanage_directlink.php%3Ffilepath%3Ddocs%2Fz80%2Fum0080&ei=8mr0VPjpN4fLaJHhgJgD&usg=AFQjCNGtbC4aBHHBIKcxfre8bzI0fxE_Cw&bvm=bv.87269000,d.d2s
Without it my life would be but a hollow, empty existence!
Grab the official Zilog Z80 user manual to help out with the instruction set.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc="s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zilog.com%2Fmanage_directlink.php%3Ffilepath%3Ddocs%2Fz80%2Fum0080&ei=8mr0VPjpN4fLaJHhgJgD&usg=AFQjCNGtbC4aBHHBIKcxfre8bzI0fxE_Cw&bvm=bv.87269000,d.d2s
cmonkey said:The MAME debugger is the single best piece of software I've ever used in my life, period.
Without it my life would be but a hollow, empty existence!
Grab the official Zilog Z80 user manual to help out with the instruction set.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc="s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zilog.com%2Fmanage_directlink.php%3Ffilepath%3Ddocs%2Fz80%2Fum0080&ei=8mr0VPjpN4fLaJHhgJgD&usg=AFQjCNGtbC4aBHHBIKcxfre8bzI0fxE_Cw&bvm=bv.87269000,d.d2s
You may also find one (or more) of the following links useful :-
http://map.grauw.nl/resources/z80instr.php
http://www.ime.usp.br/~einar/z80table/
http://www.z80.info/z80code.txt
http://map.grauw.nl/resources/z80instr.php
http://www.ime.usp.br/~einar/z80table/
http://www.z80.info/z80code.txt
cmonkey said:
They are excellent Ade, thanks
Ok got some basic independent routines working now, still not that impressive but not bad for a retard
Got a little frame counter and simple timer system to allow routines to control how often they are serviced. All pretty simple at the moment, but at least the checker board scrolls quite smoothly, only used 16 tiles for that effect. It's a shame you can't flip em, that would save quite a bit.
Lot's of ideas for animating tile effects, still to implement (work out how I might implement
)
I'm am so remembering why I loved assembler, it's so rewarding even with crappy stuff like this, thanks Adrian
look at it in 480p60 for best viewing
Hurray Banana2015-03-02 22:55:38
Got a little frame counter and simple timer system to allow routines to control how often they are serviced. All pretty simple at the moment, but at least the checker board scrolls quite smoothly, only used 16 tiles for that effect. It's a shame you can't flip em, that would save quite a bit.
Lot's of ideas for animating tile effects, still to implement (work out how I might implement
I'm am so remembering why I loved assembler, it's so rewarding even with crappy stuff like this, thanks Adrian
look at it in 480p60 for best viewing
Hurray Banana2015-03-02 22:55:38
Wow! I'm honoured to be mentioned, by name, in someone else's demo!
Cheers Eric!
I feel like all the hard work that I did is slowly starting to pay off now that I've got at least one person interested in homebrew coding for arcade hardware. Now we need to get some of these other lazy butts coding too....
And you're right, asm coding is very rewarding! Confusing at times, but ultimately much more rewarding than any of this modern day, high level crap.
Cheers Eric!
I feel like all the hard work that I did is slowly starting to pay off now that I've got at least one person interested in homebrew coding for arcade hardware. Now we need to get some of these other lazy butts coding too....
And you're right, asm coding is very rewarding! Confusing at times, but ultimately much more rewarding than any of this modern day, high level crap.
Cheers everyone
Spending most of the time debugging my very poor logic choices
(at least I'm getting to know my way around the mame debugger
)
Got a couple of ideas of simple games I could write on this hardware, 8 sprites isn't very many.
Never gonna produce something as awesome and polished as Pac Manic Miner (doff my cap towards Jim), but it is definitely something to strive towards.
Just loving (again) doing assembly. Don't think I'll go back to the extremes of spending 2 months on paper working out the quickest way to draw a horizontal line for a scan convertor,but hours have disappeared here without noticing them.
Once I've cut me teeth I will look at some more powerful hardware.
Spending most of the time debugging my very poor logic choices
Got a couple of ideas of simple games I could write on this hardware, 8 sprites isn't very many.
Never gonna produce something as awesome and polished as Pac Manic Miner (doff my cap towards Jim), but it is definitely something to strive towards.
Just loving (again) doing assembly. Don't think I'll go back to the extremes of spending 2 months on paper working out the quickest way to draw a horizontal line for a scan convertor,but hours have disappeared here without noticing them.
Once I've cut me teeth I will look at some more powerful hardware.