LASooner

I program in TIdBit, but I want something that analyzes the flow of a program, to look for dead ends or unused subroutines, maybe identify where the code is checking something too many times in a loop, etc.

Other than going through your code by hand to map out paths and loops, does anyone have any tools for analyzing basic code to better visualize it? Perhaps something that takes basic code and generates a flow chart from it? I've looked online and it seems there are tools that do this for C, Python, Java etc, but nothing for good old fashioned Basic code.

Just be aware that switch boxes can introduce noise into the signal depending on the quality

Awesome, Nicely done!

The thing to remember about recursive folders is the more you add, the longer your line to load it and save it becomes

Got mine up and running this is going to be very valuable for quickly testing on real iron without having to make a cartridge image.

For night stalker, I had the looping heartbeat sound on player 1, and the sound effects on player 2, I set it to play the heart beat when the player spawns, and it just continues through as all sound effects play. Some effects interrupt the heartbeat, but it picks up where it left off when it was interrupted. good stuff.

I'm still planning on putting a DSK version out that includes the splash screen before loading the game, but I'm working 12 hour days and weekends on the next Call of Duty, so I haven't had much time to do anything lately.

I notice having converted sid to midi and also in your conversions, many frequency changes are subtle enough they could be combined into a single line For example 100 CALL SOUND(16,388,0,185,6) 110 CALL SOUND(16,384,0,185,6) 120 CALL SOUND(33,380,0,185,6) 130 CALL SOUND(16,377,0,185,6) 140 CALL SOUND(16,373,0,185,6) Could be changed to this without much noticeable difference 100 CALL SOUND(97,380,0,185,6) It loses some of it's funkyness, but saves memory

It's better than what I got out converting a sid to a midi and a midi to soundlist, thanks for this!

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Awesome! Did you do some SID to midi to TI thing? I'd also like to point out, this is a perfect example of why sometimes it's a good idea to let people know what you're working on

Yeah, I don't know how much of the song I'm going to be able to do Thanks, I just like seeing if it can be done with the tools Senior Falcon has given us. I hope to take another shot at bomb squad when I feel up to it. But this was one of my favorite games I had on the C-64, and it's different enough from Night Stalker to challenge me in different ways. I'm still not sure if I'll have the match timed or first one to 20 wins. But I do like the idea of trying to make this 2 player or 1 player.

Now that I'm wrapping up work on Night Stalker, it's time to start working on Something else to hold my interest. I've decided to try to recreate HypaBall from the Commodore 64. Kind of Pong meets rollerball with jetpacks I've decided I like working my s**t out in public, so instead of sitting on it, I'm going to post as I develop it. Should be fun and infuriating to make. So this is what I've got since Friday of last week. As you can see I have player 1 movement and sprites defined ball bounces properly off boundaries and teleports from left to right Character color shifts to accommodate dark background Immediate tasks: Be able to catch the ball and throw it in any direction. Pause movement for characters not on the side with the ball Register goal and who scored it. Get 2nd player functioning Allow 2nd player to be CPU controlled Register Foul for holding the ball too long Penalty kick Animate Crowd Sprite Order rotation based on ball position and character priority Here's the original C-64 inspiration

you guys amaze me with what you were able to do in 4k. I would be curious to know how all that speech and music was crammed into pong

I just had a flashback to my elementary school computer class

I'm making a game that only works with Joystick 3, it's called "Future Use"

I'd like to see a low profile replacement for the speech synthesizer that uses Matt's pin expansion.

Good deal. Guess I need to come up with a new game to take advantage of all this. Thanks Harry!

Were you able to fix the issue with COMPRESS where you had to capture the full character set in 2 passes and then remove the DATA line with "" in the first set?

Your bunker appears to be busted

If you are using any flavor of Basic or Extended Basic, you'll want to use TIdBit, it allows you to program using labels instead of line numbers http://codehackcreate.com/archives/237 It is invaluable to me in iterating quickly and making wholesale changes in code order. I set up batch files that run the interpreter and copy the resulting code to clipboard making it easy to paste it into Classic 99.

I appreciate the help I received from you and everyone during the development, it was the least I could do. And Harry is the man, XB256 development package is the only reason I could get this done.

I've had my PI waiting for this since Christmas, and was one of the few who got to order one from Arcade Shopper. I'll probably order one of the PEB ones when they get released as well. I love supporting the projects created on this forum and doing stuff I could never dream of with my TI's.

I've been making video games for over 20 years and take my fair share of critique shots, but this game was all mine, labor of love and an homage to one I cared about. The last few weeks I was putting in long hours working on it, I just really didn't need that feedback at that point. Speed was/is a bullet point issue I was well aware of. It was compounded with the fact that I'm now working 6 days a week, 12 hours a day on the game that pays my mortgage. Don't mind me, I'm just a moody artist.