The story goes something like, the chaps at Ocean France had come back saying it wasn't going to be possible on the ST for technical reasons, and so the cocky 21 year me; says; "Mike's done it on a Spectrum, it'll be a piece of piss on the ST/Amiga" and set about proving it...
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এই থ্রেডটি দেখানধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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...of course by then it was far too late to do anything with it, and as cocky as I was, it was only the track and sprites I'd implemented; so there was at least a couple of months of real work to do.
এই থ্রেডটি দেখানধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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I would absolutely love to read the full source code of that routine!
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If Mike were up for it (as its based on his brainchild) and I can find a digital copy on the HDD I’d put it out.
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That would be amazing. How the tables were generated for the hills etc. is the most intriguing bit, and I'd love to see the z80 version one day (I'm not great at reverse engineering!), as WEC was great, and Jobbee took it on to the amazing Chase HQ.
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Funnily enough I re-worked out the BASIC table generators for it a couple of weeks ago
I guess, worse case scenario I could type it in again and it's only 30 or so pages of code.
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Now THAT'S the proper language! Also nice to see there were some people back then who actually commented their code...
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I always did; still heavily do... I picked it up from John Brandwood at Ocean (a wee bit of hero worship!) and have always endeavoured to meet his standards. I loved 68000 - just a lovely processor.
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Did you use the PDS to write code back then? The tab spacings look very familiar.
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No, we had our own editor/cross-assembler that ran on the Atari ST and then targetted Z80, 6502, 68000, Z8, 65C816 and 8086. I used PDS briefly for doing the mastering on Pete Baron's exquisite conversion of Salamander - some of the watch window stuff "inspired" me
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I always have the upmost respect for those know how to throw Assembly together.
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In some ways it was easier back then; clock timings were very predictable and there were no caches and branch predictors. That said, of course, multiply and divide instructions were luxuries we didn't have on the 8 bits, so some logarithm trickery was in order.
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Can't believe you printed it out. I always put comments in my code as you will see if you look at the POV CD. Must get back to coding. MSD/POV.
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It was more the done thing back in the late eighties / early nineties - half the time you couldn't hold all the source in memory to zip around it, so a printout was a quick reference

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When I was writing Z80 assembly for my ZX Spectrum I printed most things off & I still have those print outs. Mike & I wrote a link filer for the ST, Mike passed it to Vapour who instantly knew how it worked cos of my extensive comments!
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... and then added all other kinds of bits ;-)
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