[stella] Loops with two counters

["Bob Montgomery" <BobM@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am writing a kernel that uses Y to count scanlines but also uses X to count down as well.

So, the looping code looks something like this:

  dey                 ;+2   50

  tya                 ;+2   52
  cmp BlockChange,X   ;+4   56
  bne Kernel1Loopa    ;+2   58
  dex                 ;+2   60
  bpl Kernel1Loopb    ;+3   63

That takes 15 cycles. Is there a faster way?  I really need a few more cycles :)

Thanks,

-bob
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