Re: A85: Tyrant ports


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Re: A85: Tyrant ports





If you port it to ZShell, it will run fine under Usgard anyway.

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Humberto Yeverino wrote:
> 
> A couple days ago I started the rewrite for Tyrant, my first game.  The
> code was real messy and bug ridden, so starting over seemed like the best
> thing to do.  But on to the real news, when it is complete there will onlt
> be versions for Rigel and Zshell.
> WHY?
> Because if I simply ported to Usgard by inserting &s the compiled string
> would explode it size.  There are several calls to 32-bit math routines
> and space saving routines.  Since I would basically be fixing this problem
> the same way for Usgard as Zshell, I decided, why waste the time.
> btw the fix would be relocating the subroutines to graph_mem 
> 
> Aside from that it's coming along.  Expect to see a demo (just for 1p
> mode) soon. 
> 
> Hey what do you know, a message about programming for the 85 on the Asm-85
> list, how unique.  
> 
> -Humberto Yeverino Jr.
> 
> "I kick ass for the Lord."
> -Dead Alive (1992)
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