Problem with this is: for each different height of the missile you would need another giant table.
And if you are using most of the screen for your display, > ~128 scanlines, depending on missile height, then you have page-crossing which creates timing issues.
On the other hand, for the specific thing I'm playing with right now, I have a 2LK covering 128 scanlines, so my Y-counter only goes to 63 - so my tables would easily fit in a page. Could get two in a page. And I have big giant tables of color data, where the lowest bit is unused, so I could reuse those tables, and in-kernel do this:
lda (),Y
asl
sta ENABL ;+10
Hmmmm....
-bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Debro [mailto:dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:13 PM
To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [stella] Fastest missile/ball draw
Hi Manuel,
> Well, if you have the ROM space, a faster way is always:
>
> LDA (ballPointer),Y
> sta ENABL
BTW, this is what Berzerk does. It re-uses the maze data for this.
Take care,
Dennis
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