Well, back to work.  I'm coding the progress bar.  Sorry, ztrumpet, it looks like displaying partial buildings is going to take too much work, memory and processing power.  I'm still trying to make this game the best it can be, but it is for a 6 mhz processor

CREEPER

Role: Scout, Construction Worker
Cost: Free
Health Points: 30
Damage Per Second: None
Weapon Range: N/A
Speed: 15
Fuel Capacity: 180
Sephrane Gas Capacity: 60
Rate of Overheat: 6 per second

The Creeper is capable of constructing structures and scouting, just like any other races' beginning units.  However, the Creeper cannot attack anything and requires fuel.  On the other side of the coin, the Creeper can be upgraded to bepermanently cloaked.  The cloak requires absolutely no sephrane gas.  However, the Creeper cannot attack when cloaked, so the player must turn the cloak on and off appropriately.

Thorax Thrusters: This is a Deterorating Upgrade, not a permanent upgrade.  It allows a Creeper to hover, flying in a similar manner to a Scouter.  It also gives the Creeper twice its normal speed.  A Creeper can create structures while it is hovering.

Due to balance issues (no, we have not been playing S.A.D., we've just been envisioning it), players require at least one research facility to build a raptor.  This allows players to scout, but without having a decisive advantage of high HP.

Also, in lite of the new Ptaloid race, one can build a detector by simply having a research facility.  A detector no longer requires a starbase.

Here's Lesson 13, mostly on ASM Gorillas.  It's a good lesson for the faint of heart  , but not for those who don't want to put in the practice.

Quote from: Hot_Dog on July 08, 2010, 03:29:54 pm

Have you read the tutorials from the beginning?  I'd recommend you do so if you haven't:  It's my goal that the lessons are easy to understand, and thus I can't really explain the difference, you should read about it.

However, I will say that HL is a number, such as a ram location.  (HL) is whatever is stored in RAM at that location.  (HL) can be used almost any place where you can use "One-Byte Register" as a parameter.  If this confuses you, I highly recommend you read from the beginning

I understand the difference between HL and (HL) (i did not read your tutorials from the beginning but i did read Sean Mclaughin's ams in 28 days) my question is what you mean with it. Or better said: what does HL have to do with the commands SRL and SLA? why is it involved. SRA and SLA are on-byte register commands so what does HL have to do with it?
Is (HL) (adress location) modified because you use these commands? or does it destroy HL?

HL is the location in RAM.  For instance, in S.A.D, I say "this is where in RAM I want to store information about each building."  Then I can tell HL to focus on that location.  (HL) is what is stored inside of RAM at that location.  So when you use (HL), only the RAM is modified, not the location.

On the RL instruction you say it moves the carry into bit 0 and bit 7 into the carry. But what happens first? it can never happen at the same time since CPU's are sequentially processing data so is it in the order you mention or the converse?

I have no idea, but that's irrelivant

Btw is it the one talking about some S.A.D techniques as you talked about on IRC earlier?

It is. Not "game playing" techniques as much as coding techniques.

Lesson 16.  I'll now be going back to lesson 13.