Author Topic: Axe Snake (Read 17411 times)

Quigibo · « **Reply #15 on:** June 16, 2010, 07:34:46 pm »

You shouldn't be using the normal getkey for games. Its slow and it returns funky stuff sometimes. That code should be:

Pause 50
X+getKey(3)-getKey(2)->X

ztrumpet · « **Reply #16 on:** June 16, 2010, 07:39:40 pm »

I'm using it to get input for the user to type their name, so I don't want a lot of statements. I pretty much need getKey to use with my look up table.
Nemo, I'm using it the second way. Still no luck. =(

nemo · « **Reply #17 on:** June 16, 2010, 07:43:08 pm »

quigibo, the BASIC way of getkey functions better for a menu. at least, for me it does. with yours it has the possibility of skipping an item. and if i increase the pause, my menu just looks like it's responding ridiculously slow.

sorry ztrumpet $:-\$ i don't have anything else, except maybe quigibo's way will work. i suggest upping the pause to about 200-250 though, since 50 you have to deliberately try to not skip the middle item(s) in your menu

EDIT: offtopic, quigibo, are sine, cosine and the signed division routine really slow or did i accidentally put a delay in my program?

Quigibo · « **Reply #18 on:** June 16, 2010, 07:59:24 pm »

Yeah, I wasn't sure if this was for a menu or part of the game. Regular getkey is definitely good for menus.

Signed division is definitely the slowest of the 3. The reason the circle looks a little square-ish is that I'm using a very fast approximation of sine and cosine for performance reasons. Normally you don't notice it at all unless you draw the trail of the sprite.

nemo · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2010, 08:05:10 pm »

$:-\$ alright. i'm only doing two signed divisions, two sines and two cosines and that section of my program is already as slow as the other which calls a subroutine 6 times for tilemap collision detection, and then has a volley of if statements to determine what to do. if there's any way to improve the signed division routine, that would be excellent. seeing as i don't even know what parsing actually does, i'm not exactly in a position to talk

ztrumpet · « **Reply #20 on:** June 16, 2010, 09:41:00 pm »

I've confirmed that adding
Output(6)
Disp B>Dec
right after the getKey always returns a zero.

Quigibo · « **Reply #21 on:** June 17, 2010, 12:38:17 am »

You didn't disable intterupts did you? They are required for getkey.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #22 on:** June 17, 2010, 03:29:06 am »

interrupts? Do you mean we must do FnOn at the start of our programs to be able to use getkey() now?

Quigibo · « **Reply #23 on:** June 17, 2010, 03:36:05 am »

No, they're enabled by default. You just shouldn't call fnOff without enabling it again if you plan to use OS getkey

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #24 on:** June 17, 2010, 04:15:07 am »

Oh ok. By OS getkey you mean getkey without the (), right?

Quigibo · « **Reply #25 on:** June 17, 2010, 04:18:16 am »

Correct

ztrumpet · « **Reply #26 on:** June 23, 2010, 10:50:40 am »

There are no FnOffs in the program.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #27 on:** June 23, 2010, 11:22:53 am »

Could you maybe post your code via Quigibo PMs in case this might be a bug?

ztrumpet · « **Reply #28 on:** June 23, 2010, 11:26:30 am »

The code's in the first post, in program form. To clarify, this is NOT a contest entry.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #29 on:** June 23, 2010, 11:27:02 am »

Oh ok I thought this was the executable, I must have forgotten

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