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HighSPEC (brand new RADICAL High resolution emulator) Hi there, This is an announcement to all spectrum lovers of a brand new (and radical) spectrum emulator called HighSPEC! It is the work of Tom Walk…
... even vaguely sane, doing this sort of thing should be absolutely ... , assuming you've got an algorithm to do any of those ... -
HighSPEC (brand new RADICAL High resolution emulator) Hi there, This is an announcement to all spectrum lovers of a brand new (and radical) spectrum emulator called HighSPEC! It is the work of Tom Walk…
... even vaguely sane, doing this sort of thing should be absolutely ... , assuming you've got an algorithm to do any of those ... , I haven't got an algorithm to do the things I ... can appreciate. I think this sort of thing should be encouraged ... -
When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?
... *most* important thing is your algorithm. All the optimisation in the ... . However a change to the algorithm and the way I was ... early in development are what sort of sprites you will be ... -
Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... language for the painter's algorithm: one way it can be ... effectively do the painter's algorithm. So it's just a ... painter's algorithm modified so that it's ... is effectively a quick insertion-sort step and is fairly fast ... -
In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... values.
That sort is simply a bin sort.
There are ... 3 other problems with this algorithm.
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In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... only problem with your page sort is that you cannot have ... to use a more complex algorithm to skip over the empty ... -
In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... ; Procedure uses the Shell-Metzger algorithm for sorting an array of ... Shell. This sorting
; algorithm is extremely efficient for sorting ... br />
;BUBBLE SORT
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In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... way conducive to the heap algorithm). Then [URL="http://z88dk.cvs ... of the overhead of the algorithm. This is probably because it ... items.
The bin-sort put up by baze,gasman ... likely faster than the bin sort for small numbers of sprites ... -
In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... likely faster than the bin sort for small numbers of ... point out once more that algorithm which sorts just pure numbers ... we could either bubble sort pairs like [sort key, sprite pointer], ... the L register from "bucket" sort insert procedure, like...
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In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... point out once more that algorithm which sorts just pure numbers ... there are many items to sort. [/QUOTE]
i'm ... sprites (50+ ??)and with increased sort precission (3 or more bits ... is if someone really need sort so many sprites with such ... -
Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... state that for an algorithm whose number of instructions is ... N for which that algorithm will require less instructions ... than an algorithm whose number of instructions ... does not imply any sort of relationship between those algorithms ... -
text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... And finally we have the sort-by-player-score function for ... computing all players' scores) to sort the four "struct player *" ... decreasing player score. The sorting algorithm used is a [URL=" ... wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_sort"]selection sort[/URL] where we look ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... WoS has acted as a sort of escapism over the last ... -
Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?
... I wrote a naive SIN algorithm in machine code, it could ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort]bubble sort[/url] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I ... -
Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?
... I wrote a naive SIN algorithm in machine code, it could ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort]bubble sort[/url] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I ... -
Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?
... I wrote a naive SIN algorithm in machine code, it could ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort"]bubble sort[/URL] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I ... can be improved with that algorithm of drawing 1/8 of ... -
Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?
... I wrote a naive SIN algorithm in machine code, it could ... .wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort]bubble sort[/url] in machine code. But ... BASIC doesn't provide a sort routine at all so I ... even need to change the algorithm, just add as much NOPs ... -
About Chess games & BASICIs it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?
... , for it to offer any sort of challenge, you'll need ... .org/wiki/Minimax"]minimax[/URL] algorithm with a good position evaluation ... -
About Chess games & BASICIs it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?
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Biggest single-load game?How many screens is the biggest single-load game? I'm not thinking of levels that randomly generate, but ones with difined screens. 16k, 48k and 128k…
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Biggest single-load game?How many screens is the biggest single-load game? I'm not thinking of levels that randomly generate, but ones with difined screens. 16k, 48k and 128k…
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First Contact - New Isometric GameIt was about time I did something software-wise! I took a bit of a break from writing the ULA book, and have come up with a new game. Work is very mu…
... 't have to write seperate algorithm for them. In isometric games ... room. As long as I sort the sprites in the list ... -
Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…
... start. You can use this algorithm:
1) Dim an ... .
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2) Choose ... -
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
... RAM.
I can sort of understand the 'engineering' view ... compressor compared to the Huffman algorithm. I did think about using ... -
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
... RAM.
I can sort of understand the 'engineering' view ... compressor compared to the Huffman algorithm. I did think about using ... though for speed of the algorithm.
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tricks to simplify codingWhen i started with programming in assembler i had very simple approach to do things. Just shifting bytes around, doing simple tests and so... Later …
... using functions to generalize an algorithm. Eg, qsort accepts a function ... that it is able to sort an array of any data ... -
Correct flag response to BIT n,(HL) etc.When running the test program suggested by Arjun (thanks again), all intructions are passing the flag tests except the BIT n,(HL), BIT n,(IX+dis) and…
... , his agent, PA or some sort of bodyguard?[/quote]
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Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... does have something of the sort.
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In ... malloc() which uses the same algorithm as Boriel's verison in ... front end on the malloc algorithm where the program specifies a ... -
Optimize this assembly?Aiming for Variable*192 -> HL In the first case, I came up with the obvious method - *128 +*64: [code] ld a, (variable) ;13 ld h,0 ; 7 ld l,…
... bit properly.
The algorithm involves tripling the contents of ... 9 bits, then my quicker algorithm can be made to work ... ago, that does the same sort of thing with [B]4 ...
