Memoirs of an X register

Well, no clue if you should need to do that... creating macros without any goal in mind seems to be rather odd actually...

 

The code as is would execute 512 cycles faster (per page!) though, if you'd move the CRLP label just one line down.

(Of course you should no longer trash the accu with "LDA $CD" for the next page, but rather use the X register for that check instead.)

Well, I was thinking there might BE a need to fill sections of memory that do not begin on page boundaries (the atari usually crams its screen memory not exactly on screen boundaries, for example.) or should I just override that and move screen memory elsewhere myself???

 

As for the routine, thanks for the tips.

 

-Thom

The code as is would execute 512 cycles faster (per page!) though, if you'd move the CRLP label just one line down.

(Of course you should no longer trash the accu with "LDA $CD" for the next page, but rather use the X register for that check instead.)

I'm pretty sure there's also no need for the two conditional branches if you swap the operands on the compare and load:

	LDA $D5
	CMP $CD
	BCS CRLP

The code as is would execute 512 cycles faster (per page!) though, if you'd move the CRLP label just one line down.

(Of course you should no longer trash the accu with "LDA $CD" for the next page, but rather use the X register for that check instead.)

I'm pretty sure there's also no need for the two conditional branches if you swap the operands on the compare and load:

	LDA $D5
	CMP $CD
	BCS CRLP

 

oh wow, why can you do that?

 

-Thom

The code as is would execute 512 cycles faster (per page!) though, if you'd move the CRLP label just one line down.

(Of course you should no longer trash the accu with "LDA $CD" for the next page, but rather use the X register for that check instead.)

I'm pretty sure there's also no need for the two conditional branches if you swap the operands on the compare and load:

	LDA $D5
	CMP $CD
	BCS CRLP

 

oh wow, why can you do that?

 

-Thom

The two compares in your routine amount to branch if $CD=$D5 or $CD<$D5. Combined, that's $CD<=$D5.

 

Mine is "branch if $D5>=$CD" which is exactly the same as $CD<=$D5 if you think about it.