Commander X16

I like your indentation style and I'm going to steal it.

Ants seems like is a good demo to show how to use the library. I think extending the ant demo might be best done by those who take the time to invest in learning how to use the library. That sounds like a fine idea to me. ;) That frees you up for your original goal of porting your early program to ...

What's a bool? I meant that for music I will just have a "playing/not" to skip the frame function when the music is paused (as opposed to taking it out of the frame task list). In asm this is a byte, but the only thing that's important about this byte is whether or not it's 0. In prog8 th...

Thanks. I like the idea of the aardvark, I might use that. I did think about leaving a dead ant on the screen in another color for a few frames, and that might be a fun extension too. I was also thinking that I could make new ants orange until their first move, to highlight them when they pop up. My...

The ants work now. They're (dumb-looking) PETSCII ants, not sprites, so no VERA limitation there. ;) The ant demo is here: https://github.com/djehuti/x16-framer/blob/main/examples/ants.p8 . 3130 I can have as many of them as I have (a) slots in the one-shot ringbuffer, and (2) time to animate during...

BTW if you can keep your mob state small enough to fit in 16 bits, that state can just live in the argument part of the ringbuffer and take up 0 extra space. So you could (for example) use 2 bits for a 4-frame countdown timer, 6 bits each for x/y coordinates, and 2 bits for direction, and not need t...

Overloads to only add a task if it isn't already in the queue. For example, in a multiplayer game, if two players press the Start button on the same frame, the game should only attempt to pause once. Being able to remove a task from the queue without having to reset it completely could be nice. E.g...

Thanks for the feedback, all! Yes, I've thought a lot about the "every N frames" thing, or "schedule this task for the next N runs" or "run this task N frames in the future", but all of those would require me implementing a counter in the framer(Private) to keep track o...

I've put a new prototype, called x16-framer , on Github: https://github.com/djehuti/x16-framer It's a prog8 library (put it in your project or in a shared source directory and import it) to manage an event loop with two kinds of tasks on it: "frame tasks" to be executed every frame (e.g. t...