+Karl G Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 I need a bit more detail than that before I can make a guess. Also, does either removing the minikernel or the pflines setting reverse the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 I think you just need to clear the VDELP# registers after the minikernel. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevKelley Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 I kind of want to try using this somehow. It looks awesome. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoMikeUK Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 How do I clear the VDELP registers please? Karl, the last build before introducing the mini kernel had perfect line ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoMikeUK Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Kev, this Kernels a game changer for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 How do I clear the VDELP registers please? My comment was more for Karl, but if you want to check the theory out add this before your drawscreen... " VDELP0=0:VDELP1=0" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoMikeUK Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Yes, that sorted the problem out. Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 I think you just need to clear the VDELP# registers after the minikernel. D'oh! Thanks. I'll upload a new version tomorrow that has this fix as well as the centering when score is disabled change. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 D'oh! Thanks. You're welcome. It's was an easy oversight, seeing as the score code was clearing the registers, when the score was actually used. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 Version 0.7 is up. This includes: Fix for sprites not lining-up Better text centering when score is disabled At this point, I believe the minikernel is feature-complete, with the exception of the incompatibility with the Multisprite kernel. I do want to support the Multisprite kernel, so I will look into this next. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoMikeUK Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 I shall test and report back later :-) great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 Good news on the Multisprite kernel front. Much to my own surprise, I was able to find and fix the noscore bug in the Multisprite kernel, which allowed the text kernel to work after I changed one of the variables. I still am seeing it go over lines when I'm switching sprites in RT's 9 object demo, but it's looking more likely that I'll be able to get it to work now. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoMikeUK Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Latest version nice and stable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Version 0.8 is up. This version adds multisprite kernel support, and the documentation has been updated accordingly. I noticed that the contents of the DPCplus directory didn't make it into the zip file for the last release, but this has also been corrected. There are no changes to the support for the standard kernel or the DPC+ kernel since the last release. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvoMikeUK Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Is there a difference in size etc if using an earlier build for just standard Kernel? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Is there a difference in size etc if using an earlier build for just standard Kernel? Thank you. There are no changes for the standard kernel or the DPC+ kernel since the last release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 Version 0.9 is up. This is only an extremely minor update for all kernels that adds one more symbol (pound sign, which uses the _po label, or, alternately _ht). Basically I miscalculated how many glyphs I could have with this before, and was able to add one more. If you don't have a need to use the extra symbol, then there's no reason to upgrade. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis2907 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) Karl, I'm still a novice at this. How do I make the inline text12DPCplus.asm included with the .bin. I could never quite figure out how to accomplish that so basically I abandoned doing this to include the Title Screen Kernel. I'm trying to make it where when I or some downloads it on their phone they can play the game. Also the pdf was very helpful. I did strip down the DPC to make it user friendly for us beginners. Thanks for helping me with this. ***edit*** Never mind I answered my own question. I'm guessing the .asm was included in the .bin when I uploaded. I thought I had to do something special or extra to make it work. 20190309_DPC_Text.bas 20190309_DPC_Text.bas.bin 20190310 - DPC Text Template.txt Edited March 10, 2019 by Lewis2907 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 The PDF says "The user will need to dim a variable for the TextColor variable" but I don't see a dim for TextColor in the example program. Troubleshooting If you get a bunch of label mismatch errors when compiling, you're out of room. You may need to add more banks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Good catch on the TextColor - that is already allocated by the minikernel. I meant to say TextIndex. I have an extremely minor update to the minikernel coming soon, so I'll make that change there. For the label mismatch error, do you happen to still have any code that will trigger it? It doesn't make sense to me that that error would happen if you are out of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 For the label mismatch error, do you happen to still have any code that will trigger it? It doesn't make sense to me that that error would happen if you are out of space. I had an 8k SC program, added the text minikernel, then got a ton of label mismatch errors. I couldn't find anything wrong, but after re-reading that the text minikernel weighs in at a whopping 1200 bytes, I figured that must be the problem because I had far less than 1200 bytes free in bank 2 before I added the text minikernel. I moved to 16k and the errors immediately vanished because the text minikernel had enough room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 New version is up - I'm confident enough to call this version 1.0 now. This version gets rid of a bit of redundant code, and uses the newly-discovered unused variable discovered in the DPC+ kernel for the DPC+ version. I've also updated the documentation with RT's suggestions. At this point, I would call this "done" apart from any other bugs found. I will probably do a 24-character version eventually, but that probably won't be until someone has a real need for it. It shouldn't be too difficult, but it will take more scanlines since it won't be able to share the object positioning code with the score. Right now my head is deep in my new (non-bB) project, which uses 24-character text lines. It was my work on the text kernel, with lots of help from RevEng, which led to making this game/kernel design possible. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Muddyfunster Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Once I'm done with Dare Devil, I've got an older project that I plan to revisit as this kernel would be perfect for it. Thanks for making this Karl. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogax Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Just reread manual background issue now understood lol Still fighting the cycles lol Ill get there but its proving very tough lol this uses fewer lines/cycles but probably a lot more ROM I have no idea how it would get along with other than the standard kernel I think it uses every possible free variable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 Huh. I didn't know there was a different implementation available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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