EarlyMorning - Progress & Discussion

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EarlyMorning - Progress & Discussion

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This thread is used for discussion of EM and to update you guys on my progress :)
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Sounds cool kv83, talk about overhauling the communities dev tools! :).

4-bit graphics? Nice!

Have you started yet or is it just in planning stage?
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Nope. I already started it :)

The 4bit graphics are for the Sega z80 systems. Ben asked me to support those aswell.
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Post by Stickmanofdoom »

When you say variable size sprites, can you do this:

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A 4x4 sprite
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no. the sprite will still be 8byte based. (I assume that's your question) So a 6x6 sprite would look like this:

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I added a screenshot in the first post as you can see... :)

Note that this is one of the first builds, and it doesn't do anything atm. You just can edit maps and stuff... but no save function yet. The load function works though :)
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Post by gangsta »

d@mn it! get it working! these are soooo cool...now all the compiling and stuff are done automatically...this takes all the boring work out of programming! keep it up, kv and ben!
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Post by necro »

add api into the mix and this is the greatest set of advances in asm in quite a while
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Post by gangsta »

i kno...it's actually really fun to code now...

@kv-in the forum subtitle, is it supposed to be suit or suite?
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Post by Liazon »

It should be suite if you're talking about a collection of related programs. btw gansta, I like the new avatar. Is it Trowa Barton, or am I totally wrong?
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It's trowa barton... i drew it myself...scanned it, uploaded it to photobucket, and voila...the original one was the size of the page...i had to resize it...
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gangsta wrote:It's trowa barton... i drew it myself...scanned it, uploaded it to photobucket, and voila...the original one was the size of the page...i had to resize it...
How did you get my cousins pic? Well anyways, very nice kv.
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Post by Timendus »

Wow, that's one cool avatar :)

And good to see so much activity on the developer side! I really think this could be the coming of age of z80 development for calculators. At last we'll have a serious set of tools to develop software with on a higher level than we could reach with bloody Notepad and Paint :P

And I agree with Necro that the API fits in the package. Not that the three (counting Brass with Latenite) should be distributed together, but that's what I'd want to have on my PC for software development; Latenite (syntax highlighted code, Code'n'Compile, good includes), EarlyMorning (if I'd want to make something graphics intensive) and the API (mostly for easy debugging, testing and data manipulation).

Only one very neccessary thing missing in the mix then: PindurTI ;)
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So when can I make request? :D
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Post by gangsta »

tootin' ur own horn, eh Tim? but I second you. and kalan_vod, what are you talking about?
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