+darryl1970 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Gotcha! Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+darryl1970 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Is the ADS forum on AtariAge? I don't see a listing for it. I reverted back to a previous version, and I still cannot export sprites. Weird! I upgraded again, and I can build again. That's good. --Darryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 21 minutes ago, darryl1970 said: Is the ADS forum on AtariAge? I don't see a listing for it. ADS doesn't have its own dedicated forum, but there's a topic in the Homebrew Development forum: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+darryl1970 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Karl G said: ADS doesn't have its own dedicated forum, but there's a topic in the Homebrew Development forum: Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 AV programs beware!!! 7800basic v0.15 is now available at the github release page. Whats new, compared to v0.14: CX-22 Trakball support (this also works with most CX-80 Trakballs) Fix for using shakescreen with double-buffering Fix for pokey registers not being used as constants Hi-score screen display can now be skipped with console reset. Hi-score entry can now be performed with select+reset. the bundled dasm has been updated to the latest 2.20.14 release. Enjoy! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Muddyfunster Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavalamp Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Im getting the following error IN 7800BASIC and have exhausted any ideas I had on it, I don't see any option to set a banner height with Plotbanner. Whats causing this? ERROR, plotbanner didn't find a banner height Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mksmith Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, Lavalamp said: Im getting the following error IN 7800BASIC and have exhausted any ideas I had on it, I don't see any option to set a banner height with Plotbanner. Whats causing this? ERROR, plotbanner didn't find a banner height Are you setting your banner image height as multiples of your zoneheight? You need to ensure your image is on the boundaries for zoneheight. ie for 8 then 8,16,24,32 etc or for 16, 16,32,48,64 etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavalamp Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 43 minutes ago, mksmith said: Are you setting your banner image height as multiples of your zoneheight? You need to ensure your image is on the boundaries for zoneheight. ie for 8 then 8,16,24,32 etc or for 16, 16,32,48,64 etc. Yeap its 96 high... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mksmith Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Ok - can you check the name of the banner in plotbanner is the same as your incbanner (excluding path and extension)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavalamp Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 1 hour ago, mksmith said: Are you setting your banner image height as multiples of your zoneheight? You need to ensure your image is on the boundaries for zoneheight. ie for 8 then 8,16,24,32 etc or for 16, 16,32,48,64 etc. Found it, I was not dropping the .JPG in PLOTBANNER, and I also had 160A in there too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mksmith Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Good stuff ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 Heads up that using indexed arrays in if...then comparisons is problematic in certain circumstances, in 7800basic and bB. I'll need to delve a bit deeper to see what can be here, but in the meantime, use a temp variable instead... temp1=dogtype[breedindex] if temp1 = -1 then goto drawpoodle 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+darryl1970 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, RevEng said: Heads up that using indexed arrays in if...then comparisons is problematic in certain circumstances, in 7800basic and bB. I'll need to delve a bit deeper to see what can be here, but in the meantime, use a temp variable instead... temp1=dogtype[breedindex] if temp1 = -1 then goto drawpoodle Is this the case only for the condition? So, is this okay? temp1 = enemyX[enemyindex] if temp1 = -1 then enemyX[enemyindex]=0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 Yes, that would work. I should mention for everybody's sake this this particular bug is triggered by the presence of indexed arrays *and* complex math in the if clause. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 7800basic v0.16 is now available at the github releases page. Here's what's new since the v0.15 release... updated the plotsprite frame parameter to take into account tallspriteheight. added "set deprecated frameheight" to allow for historic plotsprite frame behavior with tall sprites. added hiscoreload command, to load tables from hi score devices into ram. added support for optional game routines: altgamestart, bottomscreen and userinterrupt. splitmode demo sample changed to splitmodetop and splitmodebottom examples, which demonstrate mode splits without wasting cycles. allow variables for boxcollision width and height parameters. added yellow screen of death, to make it obvious when data has been executed. fix: enable bank 0 prior to turning on dma, to avoid race between startup and dma when using topscreenroutine. fix: shakescreen adjusted to work with 224 line display fix: "set canary off" fixed to actually disable the canary the bundled dasm has been update to the latest 2.20.14.1 release. The previously mentioned bug (array with complex math in if...then condition) hasn't been addressed yet. I wanted to level-set with this release, before digging into that one. I also want to bring special attention to the yellow screen of death feature. Just like the canary, it's meant to alert you to a very problematic condition in your code (execution of data) by making the failure obvious. If your code was previously working, and you get a yellow screen of death under certain conditions, it means your code really wasn't working correctly before. 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Muddyfunster Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Thanks for the update Mike ? I think there might be a typo though : To use deprecated mode I think it's set deprecated frameheight (as you note in the changes log) but the documentation reads to use: set deprecated tallheight 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 Thanks Lewis, good catch! I've fixed that in the doc, and updated the release packages at github with the fixed doc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TwentySixHundred Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 4 hours ago, RevEng said: 7800basic v0.16 is now available at the github releases page. allow variables for boxcollision width and height parameters. Awesome update Mike! Many great new features, however im really excited about variables for width and height parameters. Going to have some fun playing around with this ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 Glad it's useful to you! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Muddyfunster Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 47 minutes ago, RevEng said: Glad it's useful to you I found it super useful, couldn't have added the new hit system to Danger Zone without it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mksmith Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Awesome Mike thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Can you post a small altgamestart label example here so I can add it to the online version? You could always include it in your PDF later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 One more thing. "set canary" has a section of its own, but "set breakprotect" doesn't. "set breakprotect" is only mentioned in the troubleshooting section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 Thanks RT! Here's an updated PDF where I've given a section to "set breakprotect", and expanded the "altgamestart" section a bit and added an example. 7800basic Guide.pdf 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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