MaxCoderz

graphmastur wrote:I think that this project is amazing!!! Do you have a current release?

Thanks

There is no current release - I am still in the process of moving it over into an APP. Some things - like the texture mapping - use a lot of self-modifying code and will be painfully slow without it, so I'm still considering the possible solutions on that.

There is probably enough usable code in it to make an experimental release, perhaps next weekend, but I already wasted all this weekend playing with gravity so I will have to get cracking.

That is good. So I could program it just like a standard asm program?

graphmastur wrote:That is good. So I could program it just like a standard asm program?

Yep. You use it in the same way you would use the built in routines in a shell such as MirageOS - it just provides a bunch of routines which your program can call. The are some #defines as well, such as .glLoadIdentity, but these just expand into routine calls. They're just there for convenience, and they make the code easier to read.

The only catch is that you need some special code at the start of your program to make the routines available (although this is just a cut-and-paste job) and once the library is loaded, you need to jump through a few hoops if you want to call a shell routine. This is because the library gets paged into the same address range ($4000 - $7FFF) that the shell was loaded into. So if you want to call a shell routine, you need to flip to the shell page, call the routine, and then flip back to the library page again.

This might be an issue initially, since the library doesn't provide any sprite routines (yet), apart from the really slow texture mapped ones. I'd like to add regular sprites but they are pretty low down on my priority list, since I don't need them for the game I am working on (which is, after all, the motivation for this project!).

Are there any features in particular which piqued your interest? I'd like to do some kind of experimental release this weekend but a lot of stuff is going to have to be left out. If there is something in particular you liked, I will make sure I include it if at all possible.

What piqued my interest was the idea of doing the 2d lines like this. It seems very fast, and could be used for many different things. The whole shell mapping thing is not that big of a deal. I mean, how hard is it to have two routines: That should work, and it uses the first byte of AppBackupScreen.

Oh, and I don't really know about features to add, until I actually see what it can do. Basic lines would be good, I guess.

That assumes your page is known at compile time or you use SMC, and if you go down that road you could just as well do: Just write the correct value into label_hack when your app starts..

Actually, what I'd like is a custom B_CALL type system. Something like:
The tricky part is you need to preserve all registers (including F) because you don't know the inputs/outputs of the shell routine. I wrote a couple of versions of a routine to do it, but it's always pretty slow - usually around 200cc iirc.

Anyway, I've put together a usable version, though it's still lacking a lot of stuff. Polygons are drawn a little off. Lines can only be draw black. Lots of other shortcomings, but usable.

The zip file contains the binaries and includes, a small demo and some incomplete reference documentation. Between the documentation and the demo comments, you might be able to piece enough of it together to at least play around with it.

Just a little extra...

I used the lib to create a very crude orbit game. Try it out if you like

The left and right arrows control rotation (one press = one pulse of the thrusters) and holding down 2nd fires your main engine. Plus/minus zoom in and out and mode quits.

There is no collision detection

"Shit guys, we got the missiles are coming, fire our shit" "but i am le tired." "well have a nap, THEN FIRE ZE MISSLES!"

that makes me think about wind waker

that boat game dude is hilarious

hmm, I tried the orbit thing, but it just quits on me before doing anything...

Eeems wrote:hmm, I tried the orbit thing, but it just quits on me before doing anything...

Did you send zlibgl83.8xk to your calc as well as orbit.8xp? If you didn't it will quit immediately with no error message. That's the only reason I can think for that happening.

I gave it a try and it works really nicely.

Also i had a quick squiz at some of your routines and i am particularly impressed with the math ones .

qarnos wrote:

Eeems wrote:hmm, I tried the orbit thing, but it just quits on me before doing anything...

Did you send zlibgl83.8xk to your calc as well as orbit.8xp? If you didn't it will quit immediately with no error message. That's the only reason I can think for that happening.

actually no I didn't...I can't seem to find it, could you give me a link to it please? I thought I was missing something, but yeah....

tr1p1ea wrote:I gave it a try and it works really nicely.

Also i had a quick squiz at some of your routines and i am particularly impressed with the math ones .

Thanks

I have a fetish for maths routines

qarnos wrote:

Eeems wrote:hmm, I tried the orbit thing, but it just quits on me before doing anything...

It's available in this zip file (in the "bin" directory).

ah thanks
hmm interesting...I like it