The New xLIB - An APP

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 15 Nov, 2005 6:32 pm

255 PIC support has now been added. Next up (at Kevins request) is a set of shape and line routines.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Tue 15 Nov, 2005 7:24 pm

Hah, excellent. You never cease to amaze!

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Tue 15 Nov, 2005 9:19 pm

YES, I need the lines and shapes. Finish them soon

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dragon__lance · Post by **dragon__lance** » Tue 15 Nov, 2005 9:38 pm

OMG,YOU ARE THE BEST!! will u update the new xlib soon?

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 4:19 pm

I am finishing off flash gordon like functionality, the il will add line and rectangles, then i will need some people to test it all out.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 4:21 pm

Mmmm, flash gordon. That was a fun program.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 5:49 pm

Tr1p. you can always look at me for being a tester

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Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 6:07 pm

Excellent, i will need people to stress test xLIB to make sure that there arent any serious bugs! I cant have people going off to make games with it if there are bugs.

Also i finsihed support for running programs from the archive. You can recall an archived program (BASIC or TIOS-ASM) to one of 16 temp programs named XTEMP000 to XTEMP015. You then just run prgmXTEMP000 or Asm(prgmXTEMP000 etc.

So new additions:

- Support for up to 255 PIC's
- All functions can read PIC data even if they are ARCHIVED
- You can recall and run up to 16 ARCHIVED programs without actually unarchiving them
- Added a function that will tell you what hardware you are using (83+, 83+SE, 84+, 84+SE)

Next is the line and rectangle routines, then ill need some people to test

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Treefrog · Post by **Treefrog** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 8:00 pm

Keep up the good work!

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 8:42 pm

I would like to test it.

billybobjones · Post by **billybobjones** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 9:20 pm

I'd enjoy putting it through rigourous tests.

Will you add an option for 12by12 tilemaps or maybe 16by16
For 12by12 you would have them draw the sprites in the picture every 16 pixels across and every 12 down then you could copy them onto the screen using the xor meathod after clearing the screen. Just a thought.

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 10:45 pm

For people who may have missed this, I would like to add that you can't, unfortunately, use any new versions of xLIB on United-TI's TI-Basic contest. Nothing personal; it's just that it was released after the contest's starting date.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 11:28 pm

DarkerLine wrote:For people who may have missed this, I would like to add that you can't, unfortunately, use any new versions of xLIB on United-TI's TI-Basic contest. Nothing personal; it's just that it was released after the contest's starting date.

Thanks for the heads up.

billybobjones wrote:I'd enjoy putting it through rigourous tests.

Will you add an option for 12by12 tilemaps or maybe 16by16
For 12by12 you would have them draw the sprites in the picture every 16 pixels across and every 12 down then you could copy them onto the screen using the xor meathod after clearing the screen. Just a thought.

Isn't this already possible?

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Wed 16 Nov, 2005 11:39 pm

I will definatley test, and I will try to do crazy things with it too!

tr1p1ea wrote: - All functions can read PIC data even if they are ARCHIVED

Oh, yes, that saves about 4000 bytes right there

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Thu 17 Nov, 2005 1:10 am

I would love to test... the number of errors I found last time should say something about how rigorously I test it.

EDIT: Just read your tr1pea's post more closely... Oh man this is excellent. Pretty soon you'll have all the features of every useful asm library in existence!

EDIT again: Oh, I just noticed you said you had fixed the bug with unaligned AND sprites, is the same bug with LD sprites fixed as well?