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by WayneK
Sat Apr 09, 2016 11:23 am
Forum: Megadrive/Genesis
Topic: Game crashes with 2 additional lines of code in the sound driver
Replies: 1
Views: 2775

Re: Game crashes with 2 additional lines of code in the sound driver

Are you sure you want to BRA after your TST... what is the point of the TST if you *always* branch regardless of the result? :)
by WayneK
Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:30 pm
Forum: Megadrive/Genesis
Topic: Recommended assembly tools & docs for beginning with ASM
Replies: 8
Views: 7753

Yes, nice + clearly written tutorials you've made there! However I would recommend using something like VASM ( http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/ ) which is still maintained/bug-fixed, and has lots of nice features that the ancient & now obsolete SNASM assembler lacks (not to mention it's more compatib...
by WayneK
Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:34 pm
Forum: Video Display Processor
Topic: Anyone know much about the MD VDP (Game Gear welcome too!)
Replies: 4
Views: 4480

A nice write-up of various games and how they do their 'road' effects can be found here:-

http://www.gorenfeld.net/lou/pseudo

Everything is fully explained, so you should be able to write your own routines for your platform of choice after reading :)
by WayneK
Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:37 pm
Forum: Tools
Topic: bss section in asmx
Replies: 2
Views: 3670

In AS ( http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/as/index.html ) assembler which I use, the segments only seem to work correctly if you put them in order, eg: section code org $0 <code> endsection section vars org $ff0000 myvar ds.w 1 myvar2 ds.b 1 etc... this assembles the code section in ROM and doesn...
by WayneK
Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:48 am
Forum: Megadrive/Genesis
Topic: Data compression
Replies: 8
Views: 10111

I used RNC (Rob Northen Compressor) which was a popular packer on many platforms during the MD's active years... you can find a cmdline PC exe packer for the data (mode1 - best pack/slow unpack, mode 2 - ok packing/fast unpack) and source for the 2 decrunchers on devrs.com (perhaps in the GB or GBA ...
by WayneK
Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:20 am
Forum: Super 32X
Topic: 32X strengths
Replies: 42
Views: 52174

Check this link for what the 32x can do when programmed well:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10686

tech demo from the guys in Zyrinx who made some nice Genesis games also (former Amiga demo-scene guys).
by WayneK
Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:26 am
Forum: Tools
Topic: TFM Music Maker
Replies: 278
Views: 345435

Just to say, thanks for this great tracker/replayer Shiru... I've only played around with it a little bit so far, but it's clearly a long way ahead of the other editors on Megadrive. Finally, some intros/demos/productions with good music should be coming soon - just what the scene needed!