I am still beginning with ASM, so please excuse me if my programming is very n00bish. I was creating a menu routine for a top secret project and made the following code:


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However, this program runs slower than its basic equivolent

You'd think that this program would run way too fast and cause the cursor to move up and down very quickly, but it doesn't

Any help with optimizations or explanations would be nice. Also note that I complied this oncalc (comments added on my computer).

Also, I wrote a similar program for moving around the home screen (accidentally deleted it), and it only ran slightly faster than its BASIC counterpart. The idea I used was have a key loop, then jump to a place for each key press, where it checks to see if you can move. If you can't, it goes back to the key loop, if it can, it erases your current character (using the call command) and then draws a new one.

(no, I did not use source coder; I typed all of this code)

It appears that you are displaying the whole menu each time around the loop, just draw/erase the cursor instead.

Yes, that would slow it down.

I have to reload the old beta 8 of your compiler to update it though, because I seem to have misplaced some of the ZASSEMBLE files after a few RAM clears & restoring the memory

Other than displaying the entire menu multiple times, is the rest of the code pretty good for a menu?

Also, I'll create a sub-forum (private) for the game on our forum.

Once I figure out how to build my own sprite routines (I may give up and use ION's), I'll rewrite the menu to be a graph and highlight the different selections, unless this would be fine for the game.

Well for one thing when you press down it appears to jump to the up label...
But otherwise it's pretty good. And don't send Beta 8, okay? Do the newest version (OTBP Assembler 1).

Oh, I didn't know Assembler 1 had been released. Is that the same version you gave me earlier?

Also, I use the same label to save memory because there are only two options on the menu so it doesn't matter which key you press; you go to the other menu position.

The version I gave you was the unreleased version 2.

[quote="b-flat"]I am still beginning with ASM, so please excuse me if my programming is very n00bish. I was creating a menu routine for a top secret project and made the following code:


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OOOH! So secret -_-

What are you smoking?

Look at this nice code:


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How are you supposed to know what "SuperLand" is?

Yeah, the name was changed to protect the innocent.
(I'm part of this project too, btw)

well. it sounds like its starting off in a good spot..

Pshhh yeah, go around telling everyone