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Hello, Kirill! October 26, 2000 01:34, Kirill Frolov wrote to Oleg Dokukin: KF> level, and at least somewhat compatible with the standard library KF> higher-level functions, of which only the necessary ones are connected KF> for the program. Such libraries can be easily written even on ASMA if you use conditional compilation and macros. KF> but they read and wrote on it almost... After all, it’s time for development and debugging KF> there are many times more programs in pure assembly than in C, maybe 10 times KF> it’s easy to be, and not only longer, but also more difficult. This is the same for KF> spectrum is just wasted man-years of work and megabytes of useful stuff KF> software. From my experience working at GBC, I can say that this is how everything was planned. Asmov libraries were written for basic low-level functions /approximately/: 1. display.lib - setting display modes; cleaning and loading resource palettes, tiles, attributes and chr codes; calculation of screen address in acquaintances; including fast procedures for special effects. 2. objects.lib - constructor, player and animation destructor, collision detection 3. sound.lib - music. player + sfx effects 4. common.lib - keypad polling, cleaning, copying and sorting arrays5. math.lib - multiplication, division, square root, cos, sin 6. tilemgr.lib - video memory manager 7. memmgr.lib - ram manager etc. It was assumed that all this would be addressed from other sources. However, the use of libs turned out to be so convenient that and you can easily work with it from ASMA. (The library data contains almost all low-level and time-critical functions). So, when all this is there, writing any program turns out like children's construction game - build it yourself ;) Using either saves at least 50% of time. The second is the use of resources in the program and the desire to universality, especially in the case if the procedure is uncritical by time. The idea of using resources is very simple - change either does not cause changes to the program code at all, or these changes are made automatically during compilation. The simplest example of a resource is the sprite format in spriteland (by DR). The resource consists of a header + actual data. Let's say the header indicates the width/height of the sprite. And the procedure that displays the sprite uses this data as parameters. The differences are clear in the examples: ld bc,$0303 ldhl,IconData ld de,$4000 call ShowSpriteData .... IconData: incbin "data.C" ldhl,IconResource ld de,$4000 call ShowSprite ShowSprite: ld b,[hl] inc hl ldc,[hl] inc hl .... IconResource: incbin "res.C"If we say the size of the sprite has changed, then just is done by another incbin, and the program works as usual The example is certainly primitive, but even it saves time for the development of the subject :) KF> Mednonogov why didn’t want to finish the ChV-2, I’m just sure KF> that one of the reasons was simply hatred of assembly language. Plus to This is unlikely to be the real reason ;) 2:5015/133.29@FidoNet was with you Ars^FTL mailto:arseniy@pochta.by

Hello, Kirill! 02 November 2000 12:26, Kirill Frolov wrote to Arseniy Astapenko: KF>>> set KF>>> higher-level functions, of which only are connected KF>>> necessary for the program. AA>> Such libraries are easy to write even on ASMA if you use AA>> conditional compilation and macros. KF> First of all, you have all the scope of identifiers KF> get mixed up, inconvenient, in short. I don’t remember how this is implemented in Spec’s software, but Let's say in rgbasm there is a division of identifiers into local and global. Locals start with a dot (.) and act only within procedures, global ones - with underscores (_) are entered into the global table marks. However, an ordinary label can also be made global writing: global label In practice, the starting marks are global for libs all procedures. KF> And secondly, it’s easy on ASMA KF> inconvenient and buggy, only perhaps fast. This is why libs are made, so that questions can be asked about the data. There were no code sections. KF> Hy and assemble the binary KF> will be several times longer if large.Collecting a bunch of files on the flop is really a reason to run to the store :) But in principle, you can also store something in a page, it’s unlikely The size of the clean code will exceed 16K ;) KF>>> Mednonogov why didn’t want to finish the ChV-2, I’m just sure KF>>> that one of the reasons was simply hatred of assembly language. Plus KF>>> k AA>> This is unlikely to be the real reason ;) KF> Yes, I know, Bill Gates is a great force and Microsoft is his dad... By the way, I played it on gbc in microsoft puzzle collection :)) It works almost like Windows, but better :) 2:5015/133.29@FidoNet was with you Ars^FTL mailto:arseniy@pochta.by