Heaven/TQA Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) Emkay can you explain more? Because sounds good. Edited January 31, 2015 by Heaven/TQA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 What to explore? The A8 has no math Co-Processor. So any calculation means lost CPU cycles. It's as I wrote above. Using a "Runtime" that only acts on changes and does nothing when no change is needed. I'd say as others, explain more. How do you decide if something changes? When 90% of the tracker code is executed? then you can do the next 10% as well. Maybe I am still to preoccupied with the buffer idea. Because if it works like I hope it will be a nice solution for MY purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Maybe it's worth, too, to dig into RMT replayer itself to see where improvements can be made... Fex. What is the optimized player in RMT? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Maybe it's worth, too, to dig into RMT replayer itself to see where improvements can be made... Fex. What is the optimized player in RMT? A reducing of the player , well, remove every automation from it. Just use all 9 registers and only store the changes. When writing a tune, it means just to use command 3 and 4 . And to use some counters (ofcourse only adding and comparing) . When in the RMT a note gets changed, it belongs to channel 1 and 3 (for filter) . If no changes happen, you could do the "simple" packer, just like : If 10 times nothing happens, it just counts a value, does the change, resets the value. This is only needed for the envelope. For the pattern change, just read the value and write the value.... channel 0 and 2 in the other frame 1 and 3 ... only AUDCTL should be changeable with every "VBI cycle" . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apemaster Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I remember I made the "gamedesigner's kit" for turbobasic programmers, which was a ml-routine running in vertical blank, that handled different things at the same time: - playing music - playing sound effects - moving players horizontally - switching character sets the routine was about 500 bytes in size and could be placed freely in memory. music could be up to 4 channels, with envelopes etc. simple to use and easy to integrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Maybe it's worth, too, to dig into RMT replayer itself to see where improvements can be made... Interesting idea. To customize this replayer gives extra features as much as one desires. And adding the missing parts, f.e. STIMER & SKCTL control, also on the real machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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