More updates - I've managed to shrink the program for the 8-bit targets by offloading more of the data structures to the Intro program, and (not sure if this is good practice or not) raised PAGE by &100 to provide space that won't be overwritten by a CHAIN. (The Arc and later targets run from a single self-contained program so just get some memory using DIM in the normal way.) Also, moving the proportional font data to this block makes for far faster data retrieval than the FNs I was using (still in the Intro program, but that's just extracted once too populate the block) so the proportional text drawing is noticeably faster. Another change is, on the Electron, MODE 4 is now always selected irrespective of memory pressure, that's simply down to performance reasons, as at least in Elkulator, MODE 1 is about half the speed of MODE 4, which is similar to the BBC Micro.
The release page includes 8-bit releases as DFS 40T disc image, ADFS L-format disc image, ROMFS and an auto-booting ROMFS.
The release page includes 8-bit releases as DFS 40T disc image, ADFS L-format disc image, ROMFS and an auto-booting ROMFS.
Statistics: Posted by Soruk — Tue May 06, 2025 12:06 pm