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- Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:45 pm
- Forum: 6502 assembly coding
- Topic: Line routine - Second attempt
- Replies: 66
- Views: 101872
Don't expect too much overall improvement, there are other things which cost a lot of time. I know :) I gave it a try and noticed a couple of things. It is quite faster, and that is noticeable in the game overall speed. It is much nicer, better lines and again nice ships on sight :) But also I foun...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:29 am
- Forum: 6502 assembly coding
- Topic: Line routine - Second attempt
- Replies: 66
- Views: 101872
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:20 am
- Forum: 6502 assembly coding
- Topic: Line routine - Second attempt
- Replies: 66
- Views: 101872
Hi. Of course I am very interested in this routine and new optimizatios... I just updated from the svn server and cannot compile the new version. _TableMod6 is missing. Anything wrong here? Could you please post here when there is a more or less final version, so I can integrate in my programs to ch...
- Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:56 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
Greetings... We have spent many hours in cleaning and optimizing things, as you might already know. As a result, Dbug has developed a new *much faster* line routine. Also I rewrote the circle routine so it was much more efficient and Dbug (again) optimized it quite a lot. As these are quite useful r...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:18 pm
- Forum: 6502 assembly coding
- Topic: Line routine - Second attempt
- Replies: 66
- Views: 101872
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:46 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
This thread is getting really exciting! *Clear/dumping buffer + keyboard reading etc: 70,000-80,000 cycles That quite a lot more than the theoretical minimum. If most time really spend in clearing the buffer, then this shouldn't take more than ~30,000 cycles. Well, we need clearing (bunch of sta's) ...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:58 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
Got some unexpected spare time, so I did a few tests. I took an old version which is not optimized in some aspects, but could give a good idea about the overal speed of the different routines. Here are the figures, in case this rings bells on somebody's brain :) The first test was rotating at full s...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:14 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
More things I forgot about... I optimized some macro usage. E.g. during projection you often have to multiple values with the same value. So ordered the multiplications so that I only have to set up the multiplication pointers once and used a simplified macro for successive multiplications with vari...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:21 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
What's your viewport's exact size? So many things... This is becoming very very interesting. But, at least, this one I can answer: 228x122 currently. In the oric screen 1 byte equals 6 pixels, the other two being used for attributes. We are considering adding vertical decorations, so it might becom...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:13 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
Actually I have based my code on this too. :D That is great. Did you do any improvements in memory or speed here? I just removed some cycles here and there that Judd needed due to the fact that he was creating a binary library (used zero page pointers, that I substituted with labels). Where are you...
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:04 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
Indeed it would be great! I need to investigate a bit more on how many cycles are spent on the most complex routines. Rotation and projection is one of them, of course. I have used an adapted version of S. Judd's lib3D library for the C64, don't know if you know about it. Another point that should b...
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:34 am
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
Re: wow
Hey, one that recognized the music... That is great. It is the best I could do, but my skills in this field are quite limited (actually inexistant).kamelito wrote:Wow 1337 with 1492 music
Who knows, maybe we can find better music in the contest
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:27 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
As you wish...Algarbi wrote:I think it is looking even nicer with the alternate colors. If you can upload to youtube a short video would be nice just to confirm the niceness of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1cJGLGlxo
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:15 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Doing 3D games on the Oric ?
- Replies: 434
- Views: 403815
I have been toying with this idea indeed. Currently cloacking devices simply make ships invisible to your radar. Maybe something like you suggest could be added... we'll see. Anyway some small advances. More code cleaning and tweaking as well as bug hunting. I have implemented, among other things, a...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:59 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Oriculator (WIP)
- Replies: 74
- Views: 114806