Hi!
Remember what I wrote about phasor producing illegal instructions via
a loop that went to far and thus <poking> to a region that it wasn't supposed
to
poke to?
Dennis Caswell, that's the programmers name, isn't it?
He must have been quite a tricky guy, 'cause it seems he <deliberatly> ran
that
loop to far, so after reaching a negative value <ff, fe...> the poke (which
was
absolut X indexed) would cross a page boundary, and thus taking one cycle
longer than those other poke's in that loop. Well that one cycle added made
it
7 cycles after accessing the RAM area and thus a poke was not performed.
At least that is what I gather, and it seems to work well :-)
SOOOO..........
In order to poke <correctly> the poke address must follow the RAM access
after 4,5 or 6 cycles, otherwise no poke is performed!!!
The other games I mentioned still don't work 100%, but that <might> not be
Starpath related... who knows, have to converse with Bradford about these...
a quite happy...
Chris
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