Re: [stella] Combat questions aka Close to a new Mac Dev System!

[Greg Miller <gmiller@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick S Bensema wrote:
> 
> >> Well, you CAN, but if you make any changes to the code, those locations
> >> will still point to the same location.  If the code is any larger or
> >> smaller, the graphics might get garbled.  You can compensate for this by
> >> using another origin pointer right before the sprite data to keep it
> >
> >Another approach would be to start the game off with a JMP around the
> >data, and move the data right after the JMP.
> 
> Or you could omit the JMP entirely and just set the start vector address
> to wherever the code begins.

Oh, yeah... forgot that the start vector is in cart ROM on the 2600.

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