OSDK PT3 player

[6502Nerd]

Hi all

I have been continuing to explore OSDK and decided to publish a PT3 module player, converted to assemble using OSDK and be accessible from C.

Here is the repo for you to use as you wish for your own purposes : https://github.com/6502Nerd/osdk_pt3

The PT3 player is not my own work - see the credits in the pt3_asm.s file for those authors.

The PT3 files are available from the web which I then used the OSDK text to bin converter so it could be included as binary data in the compiled executable.

Also just added a YT video.. hope it's useful!

[Dbug]

Very nice, that's one more option!

Do you have any idea how the PT3 compares to the Arkos Tracker in term of memory and cpu usage?

[6502Nerd]

Very nice, that's one more option!

Do you have any idea how the PT3 compares to the Arkos Tracker in term of memory and cpu usage?

I don't have a benchmark yet - but you may know that I incorporated pt3 player into my dflat programs with the same source code and found an approximately 20-25% hit on foreground tasks. So for example when running a for-next loop. In dflat it's just about ok so I can still run Tetris in the foreground with pt3 playing.

So my motivation here is to convert my dflat Tetris to C and use this pt3 player. I think Tetris running in compiled C will be much more efficient that dflat so will be able to run much smoother.

Anyway to summarise - PT3 player takes about 20-25% of cycles, not sure how good it is vs Arkos player. Takes just over 4300 bytes for the player and non-zero page working memory.

[coco.oric]

Thanks a lot for sharing your code. just a few minuts ago, i saw you youtube video and it's great to add this sound option on development

[6502Nerd]

Happy if anything I've shared is of help.

I have more things in mind to share including much faster graphics utilities for line, circle and pixel resolution character plotting!