Erik Mooney wrote:
> Hang about. Who said you needed to store the remaining cards in the deck?
> When you generate a card, simply generate it randomly from all 52
> possibilities, then cycle through the current hand of cards and see if
> it's already there; if so, generate another. That'd also give you 100%
> randomized card flow, instead of your not-always-random shuffling. If it
> takes too long to get a new card, you can always just white-out the screen
> for a frame or two.
That's what I meant!
Sometimes you just don't see the forest behind all those trees :-)
And if that still doesn't solve your RAM-problems, you might also be
able to use the low card sprite data pointers to store the hand. But
that would require a lot of changes to the existing code.
A few more RAM suggestions:
- IMHO the B/W support isn't necessary.
- you could easy mix joy_debnc (3 bits) with last_joy (4 bits) (and
still have one more bit left! :-)
And you can optimize the ROM space too:
Example:
lda %11111111
...
lda %11111110 ; replace with asl
There are several places in code, where you could reuse prior values in
registers and save space.
Have fun!
Thomas
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