Re: [stella] Animating the Marbles

[Paul Slocum <paul-stella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So you are having the same problems that had with Thrust: more ROM normally
> requires some more RAM to utilize is effectively.

There's some truth to that, but really what's killing me is SIMULTANEOUS 
two player.  I could easily free at least 15 bytes if I didn't let both 
players play at the same time.

The big problem I'm having right now with a huge ROM is that you can't 
access it all at once.  I was thinking it would be easy to store all my 
levels in all the space I had left, but it gets tricky when you have to 
spread them over 4 banks.  I've had to split them up in odd ways.  One bank 
contains all the pointers to the screens, another contains all the control 
structures (which screen comes next etc.) and two other will contain the 
playfield data.  I'm not used to thinking this way so I keep running into 
problems I didn't anticipate.

> Can you post (me?) that fixed version, please? I would also like to see 
> the complete
> code, that helps optimizing.

Here it is.  Pages and pages of sloppy code.  ;o)  I'm up to 5 banks 
now.  If you assemble it, note that there are bugs right now since I'm in 
the process of changing the level structures, but the first level plays okay.

-Paul

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