Real Time 3D example

[jbperin]

I went a bit forward on this 3D example

I put the H3 screen in the midlle of the screen. (But I don't like this change and I might get back on it).

As suggested by Chema, I started using semi-graphic characters to replace ROM's one.

And I introduced the KeyRepeat feature to the keyboard handler.
I'm very glad that I now have a KeyRepeat mecanism. It is so convenient for real time games.

Here's what it looks like:

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And here is the stuff to load in your emulator to give it a try.

glh3_2024_09_04.tap

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[kenneth]

Great!

[ibisum]

I remember being miffed when the C64 and Speccie nerds at school got their first "3D" games ..

This looks promising - some room for optimizations, i.e. its in C? and maybe there is still an optimization pass coming in the future?

[jbperin]

Great!

Thank you

I remember being miffed when the C64 and Speccie nerds at school got their first "3D" games ..

This looks promising - some room for optimizations, i.e. its in C? and maybe there is still an optimization pass coming in the future?

Nowadays this type of thing are not very astonishing, but I think would have love this type of game when I was playing on my dad's dragon 32.

- 3D computation and rendering is made with glOric so it is 99% of pure 6502 assembly code.
- Keyboard handling is 90% asm and 10% C.
- Ship and missile animation is mostly in C.
- Radar rendrering is based on a sligthly optimised version of rax's h3lib mixing 20% asm and 80% C

So yes there are rooms for optimizations.