Commander X16

EyeballKid wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:19 pm

paulscottrobson wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:03 pm My (Neo6502) version, not quite complete. No Brains .... and obviously no collision detection which makes surviving easy but scoring a bit difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzpN1NQkSEk

Oh! I missed that - it looks fantastic!

ahenry3068 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:28 pm Offload the graphics and maybe some of the code to a separate file. Put less used routines in banked ram

EyeballKid wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:14 am

ahenry3068 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:28 pm Offload the graphics and maybe some of the code to a separate file. Put less used routines in banked ram

TL;DR: I'm too lazy.

Separate files are cheating!
I decided pretty early on that getting it into a nice single .prg file would be a nicely arbitrary restriction.

My self-decompressing .prg file is only 35KB, which does leave a few more KB of compressed data to play with (could squeeze maybe 10-15KB of new code in there, I'd say).
But the existing code already decompresses to the full 40KB, so any new code would have to go into banked ram, which would just be a bit of a pain. Even just using a single bank (an extra 8KB), it's outside the otherwise-continuous address space, so there'd be a lot of hoop-jumping to get routines properly located. Even more so if I ended up actually having to do bank switching. It'd be easy enough to do in assembly... but... well... I'm old and lazy now. Even if I like the idea of writing games in 6502 assembly, there's no way I'm actually prepared to actually _do_ it I can't really bring myself to write anything that's not portable these days.