Block Dodge progress 12/17
Yesterday was a lot of backend stuff. I was trying to figure out how to display the FPS of my game, and it just wasn't working. I had posted a question about it, and while one guy had a snarky response (or maybe it wasn't meant that way. At the time it seemed like), "What a novel way to determine frames/second!" I did get some good responses.
Turns out I was incrementing my FPS counter, which was a word, with inc which adds 1 to a single byte. So I was only increasing the high order of the word:
; old
inc frame_counter
;new
ldd frame_counter
addd #1
std frame_counterI figured that out by looking at the hex value of the dec fps that was being displayed, that is when I noticed it was the high byte that was being updated, and the low byte wasn't.
I posted the fix, and Deek replied with how I can increment a word in memory a byte at a time.
inc frame_counter+1
bne > ;did it become zero?
inc frame_counter ;low byte overflow
! ...This was the magic I needed to be able to use large numbers. I was then able to create a 32-bit counter for the timer, and I created a few routines for inc32, compare, and an add. FPS was displayed correctly. I was very happy with the progres.
Also Coco Town posted how to use Mame for displaying frame rate progress bars using Lua. Very slick.
; math.asm
;************************************************
; Math routines for 32-bit numbers
;
include "lee.inc"
include "math.inc"
add832 export
inc32 export
cmp3232 export
section code
;************************************************
; ADD832 - Add an 8-bit value to a 32-bit value
; CC is updated with last carry that was performed. If carry is set, then
; the most significant byte (00112233) 00 in the example, overflowed.
;
; Cycles: Min 23, max 75, depending on how many carries have to be added.
;
; IN: A - 8-bit value to add to 32-bit number
; X - Points to 32-bit number
; OUT: 32-bit number is updated with new value
; MOD: A,CC
;***
add832 pshs a ; put users number on stack
lda 3,x ; grab first byte
adda ,s+ ; add what user wants and remove from stack
sta 3,x ; store back
bcc done@ ; done if no carry
lda 2,x ; we had a carry, add to second number
clc ; clear carry for adda
adda #1 ; add the previous carry
sta 2,x ; store back
bcc done@ ; done if no carry
lda 1,x ; we had a carry, add to second number
clc ; clear carry for adda
adda #1 ; add the previous carry
sta 1,x ; store back
bcc done@ ; done if no carry
lda ,x ; we had a carry, add to second number
clc ; clear carry for adda
adda #1 ; add the previous carry
sta ,x ; store back
done@ rts
;************************************************
; INC32 - Increment a 32-bit number
; IN: X - points to the 32-bit variable to increment.
;
; Example:
; num0 fcb 1,$ff,$ff,$ff
; ldx #num0
; jsr inc32
; num0 will contain $2000000 after call.
;
; 0,x high byte of high word
; 1,x low byte of high word
; 2,x low byte of low word
; 3,x low byte of low word
;***
inc32 inc 3,x ; lowest byte
bne done@ ; did it become zero?
inc 2,x ; yup, byte overflow
bne done@ ; did it become zero?
inc 1,x
bne done@ ; did it become zero?
inc 0,x ; highest byte
done@ rts
;************************************************
; Compare a 32-bit number with a 32-bit number.
; IN:
; Stack:
; 10,11 num0 lower
; 8,9 num0 upper
; 6,7 num1 lower
; 4,5 num1 upper
; 2,3 ret upper lower
; 0,1 D saved (temp)
; OUT: CC flag is set appropriately
; MOD: None
;***
cmp3232 pshs d
; check most significant first, as it might be > or < the least, and that would give the wrong answer
ldd 8,s
cmpd 4,s
bne done@
ldd 10,s
cmpd 6,s
done@ puls d
rts
endsection