Hey all,
This is my first go at a health bar routine based on everyone's
suggestions to my post (Generating a health bar without ruining your
health...). I made use of the Roger Williams/Glenn Saunders asymetrical
playfield post (DD_0003, I think) and made some minor alterations. I added
a few NOPs to the drawing routine to make up for lost cycles from my
different addressing mode and put in two more during the second PF2 write
area to fix an overlapping problem. I also wrote up some code to build the
PF variables from two easily adjustable variables called HealthP0 and
HealthP1. In the real game I will adjust these based on collision, but
since this is a demo to show off health bars and I needed to know that they
worked OK. That in mind I moved the alteration of the HealthPX variables to
the joystick area of the code. If you push right, the left health bar will
decrease. If you press left, the right health bar will decrease.
My next question is, is this code effecient? I have almost no programming
experience in this arena and this is my first real bit of completed original
(sort of) code. If anyone out there would take the time to critique the
code a bit I would really appreciate it. I will of course do so myself, but
I thought this would make a nice little demo for future generations to enjoy
so I went ahead and posted as soon as it was complete. My future
alterations will be mostly stylistic and have to do with fitting it into
DoDaT (Duel of Dragon and Tiger) so it seemed better to post it now while it
was clean and readable. Thanks for any reply and also thanks to everybody
for the suggestions. After reading through them the code just flowed out of
me. It took me only a few minutes to write before I headed off to work and
then a few more to debug after I got home. The attached zip has the source
in a .txt file and the .bin. Later all.
Christopher Rydberg
solitaire0@xxxxxxxxxxx
afterlife.0catch.com
P.S.-Sorry if you got this one twice. I clicked send before attaching the
zip file. I jumped back real quick and may have caught it, but if not sorry
for dumping another mail in your box. Later.
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