Eric Christensen wrote:
>>
>> Two games in a month? 15 days per game? :-O
> Well, I'm still not done with the games.. It will probably be another
> two weeks if I think realisticly about it.
Man, you could have made _huge_ bucks back in the late
70's and early 80's if you could churn out games that
quickly :)
A Supercharger question:
I'm still confused as to the use of Supercharger
RAM. Here's an example from
http://www.primenet.com/~nickb/sctech.txt
showing how to write to ram:
ldx #$2f
cmp $f010,x
lda $f77b
This apparently does the equivalent of POKE $f77b,$3f
Since <$f010+$2f = $3f - but why the extra step?
Why not:
lda $f03f : lda $f77b
or at least:
ldx #$3f : cmp $f000,x : lda $f77b
or
cmp $f03f : lda $f77b
or
ldx #0 : cmp $f03f,x : lda $f77b ...
or how about a sta $f77b instead of the lda $f77b?
All my examples seem a little bit more obvious
in their intentions than the example from the docs,
although they're certainly helpful.
Is there a good reason to make the instructions even
less comprehensible? Is it necessary?
Another question - what's the point in being able
to power up/down the Supercharger's ROM? It's not
like extra RAM is available if the ROM is powered
down... is there some other effect I don't know
about - some side effect of having it enabled
that would make you want to disable it?
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