Pfheights error

[Captain Spazer]

I am not sure what I am doing wrong but when I try using pfheights 2600basic.exe stops working.
The error message says:

Quote

Warning: Unable to open '2600basic_variable_redefs.h'
Warning: Unable to open '2600basic_variable_redefs.h'
C:\2600 Projects\Karate\default.bas.asm (1226): error: Syntax Error ''.

Unrecoverable error(s) in pass, aborting assembly!
Complete.
Errors were encountered during assembly.

 

In the code I got

 set romsize 8k
 set kernel_options player1colors playercolors pfcolors pfheights background

main

   pfheights:
   8
   8
   8
   8
   8
   8
   8
   8
   8
   8
   8
end

   pfcolors:
   $f5
   $f5
   $f5
   $26
   $1A
   $1A
   $1A
   $1A
   $26
   $00
   $00
   $00
end

drawscreen

 goto main

Is the error as simple as I don't got enough space left in bank1? I have 186 bytes left in bank1 and 1251 bytes left in bank2.

[+Random Terrain]

Try compiling this example program to make sure things are working correctly:

 

randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#ex_shoot_pfpixel

[Captain Spazer]

It compiles just fine.

[+Random Terrain]

Now try sticking things from your program into it and see what happens.

[Captain Spazer]

Ah, clever approach! Thank you, now I can debug this thing ?

[+Karl G]

Another debug trick is to look at the generated assembly file. Even if you don't know assembly, you can open it up and look at the line number it gives. Usually above the line of assembly you will see the bB code that it converted into assembly, and can sometimes figure out what is wrong with that line to have generated the assembly error.  In your case, that would be line 1226 in default.bas.asm.

[Captain Spazer]

Thank you! That is very helpful to know.