RE: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Calvin Allett
What`s the difference between a JP and a JR, I don`t even mean in T-States, but what varies between the way they work. If you`s don`t mind me asking ? Cal... `Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:`Geoff Winkless wrote: Anyway, something like: [snip] Sorry, it's been a while and I was tired

Re: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Colin Piggot
What`s the difference between a JP and a JR, I don`t even mean in T-States, but what varies between the way they work. If you`s don`t mind me asking ? JP reads in two bytes more to use as an address to jump to. JR reads in only one more byte, to use as an offset from the current address to

RE: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Calvin Allett
Thanks for the detailed reply :) Can`t wait to be able to afford a Mayhem, hopefully sometime after Christmas :) I`ve got loads of ideas, but it`s hard coding for it on emulator in some ways. anywayz, If I had a black track instead of textured then there could even be no need to mask the

Re: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Calvin Allett
Ah sweet :) soz for delay, just spent 45 mins typing another reply ! Handy command then JR Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What`s the difference between a JP and a JR, I don`t even mean in T-States, but what varies between the way they work. If you`s don`t mind me asking ? JP reads

RE: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Calvin Allett
I meant to say, using a script, so that there`s not extra Let X=X+2 commands needed and other stuff... I forgot to put the word not in :) If a Basic prog was looked at once coded, could the MC be able to read the Car1X, Car1Y variables straight to memory, rather than having to use basic to poke

Re: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Calvin Allett
Thanks :) I`ve been reading the 1995 posts to the mailing list these past few days, and it`s amazing how much I`m picking up from those old old posts, so I`ve seen it mentioned that they run at around the same speed on SAM, am I remembering right that it depends where in screen the raster is when

RE: Testing new routines - shiddy Tomato Antics

2007-05-17 Thread Calvin Allett
Thank you, I`ve wasted far faar too much time on it, but it`s been enjoyable and I`ve learnt a few tricks :) It`s just a pity that the game is such a non game at the moment, but it will serve to show other`s hopefully if we can get more Speccy Basic coder`s on the machine... there`s still a few

Re: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Collier
On 17 May 2007, at 23:24, Calvin Allett wrote: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of the Sam's memory timings, using JR is usually as fast (or slightly faster than) using JP. That may change with Mayhem accelerator! Thanks :) I`ve been reading the 1995 posts to the mailing

Re: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Calvin Allett
So the SAMs z80 really is actually slowed down quite considerably, I hadn`t realised how much :( Thanks for the details :) Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 May 2007, at 23:24, Calvin Allett wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: Because of the Sam's memory timings, using JR is usually