Keeping HighScore even after Reset/NMI

[Island2Live]

Folks,

 

I have a little problem. I am currently developing a game on cartridge. Not sure if it will come out on cartridge but the memory layout is currently planned that way. This game will maintain a highscore ... of course not after power down. But I like to keep the highscore even after tapping the [Reset] button on our Atari.

 

Any ideas?

 

Kind regards,

Henrik Fisch

[Rybags]

When the cartridge receives initial control the WARMST flag ( can be tested - nonzero means reset was pressed, zero means initial powerup.

 

So, if WARMST = 0, set your high score to 0 or whatever initial value you want. If WARMST = nonzero, don't touch your high score.

High scores can be saved to an Atarimax flashcart although the blocksize is somewhat large, so you're writing out something like 8K on a 128K one.

[Island2Live]

Whow! Thank you very much ... this is a perfect solution!

 

Kind regards,

Henrik Fisch

[+CharlieChaplin]

Hmmm,

 

I guess the game will be reset-proof then ?!? If the game comes on cart. this is okay, but if the game comes on other media (e.g. bootdisk, diskfile, etc.), please include some key or key-combination which will do a coldstart ! Otherwise we would have to power-cycle (power off and on again) the real A8, which is not very good for a more than 30 years old machine...