Gorf Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 (edited) Crazy Ace.....your sprite ram buffer idea is the bomb! It is the better way to do it. I did it using ROM for now as I cant get any of these emu's to recognize RAM at 4000...so I did a ROM buffer as a test and it is much better because I can still use the indirect mode as well for other back drop stuff too... nice advice! Thanks ! It makes much more sense now that I've tried it. Edited December 12, 2008 by Gorf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyace Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 That's cool, I've been distracted by the A8 v C64 thread - so I haven't spent as much time coding .. I was going to test a prosystem a78 file with ram ( after you said it wasn't working ) The indirect mode sounds nice - but end's up wasting cycles every line, so it can be better to avoid it if possible. Looking forward to seeing your game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorf Posted December 15, 2008 Author Share Posted December 15, 2008 That's cool, I've been distracted by the A8 v C64 thread - so I haven't spent as much time coding .. I was going to test a prosystem a78 file with ram ( after you said it wasn't working ) The indirect mode sounds nice - but end's up wasting cycles every line, so it can be better to avoid it if possible. Looking forward to seeing your game That would be sweet if you could tell me how the RAM cart needs to be set up. But I see that the sprites are much less taxing as you say. Now I only need one character entry per zone per need, the 12 large ram buffer sprites and the rest are up to 31 random sprites. I have seen no signs of slowdown yet either. If you figure out that RAM trick it woud really open the door for more sophisticated backdrops...well at least from my leel of experience. My guess is the right guy coding this Maria chip would do miracles. I would have loved to have seen the Maria as part of the STe if not the ST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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