walter_J64bit Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Just like what the topic title say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 The ROM is available so it could be disassembled using dis6502. I'm sure there was a discussion in the A8 section on how the drawing algorithm works. Its probably in one of the A8 vs C64 threads . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted November 15, 2012 Author Share Posted November 15, 2012 The ROM is available so it could be disassembled using dis6502. I'm sure there was a discussion in the A8 section on how the drawing algorithm works. Its probably in one of the A8 vs C64 threads . There's like 14 trillion post in that thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Is there a specific reason you want the source code? Reverse engineering a binary into source code that you can extract algorithms from for use in other projects is quite a challenge. It might be better/quicker to use different approaches written from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 There is a fractal documentary where Loren Carpenter himself explains his original algorithm so you could use that logic and write in your own machine code etc for various host machines. Whatever he did he did it in one night, at the start of which he had never written a single line of 6502 machine code or used the Atari 8bit custom chips on the Atari 800 they loaned him. It was tweaked to get 2fps extra, that part nobody really knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 1 hour ago, oky2000 said: There is a fractal documentary where Loren Carpenter himself explains his original algorithm so you could use that logic and write in your own machine code etc for various host machines. Whatever he did he did it in one night, at the start of which he had never written a single line of 6502 machine code or used the Atari 8bit custom chips on the Atari 800 they loaned him. It was tweaked to get 2fps extra, that part nobody really knows. You're about 8 years late on this. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 On 2/4/2020 at 3:47 PM, Shawn said: You're about 8 years late on this. ? I love this forum, it is legitimately one of the only ones I am in where necrobumping is almost a high score thing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oky2000 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 I was searching for the source code for the Atari 800 and this was the closest match, didn't see anybody else mention that doco (may have missed it) and posted it. Don't see any ego boost to that sequence of events but then I don't post here more than a couple of times a year so don't worry mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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