Re: A86: Floating Points

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Subject: Re: A86: Floating Points
From: Grams Family <grams@netcarrier.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:35:45
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970926213321.006be994@mail.chipsnet.com>
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

At 04:33 PM 9/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>   I am trying to develop a Missle Commander type game.  How do you do
>floating points (to make the missles move at a certain angle)?
>							- Ricci E. Adams
>			 	  			  ricci@chipsnet.com
I don't know about doing floating point math, but in my IBM Asm
programming, I rarely use floating points for that kind of thing. I always
just make a sin/cos table using fixed point numbers, and then use a
Bresenham line algorithm to do the points. Or just use fixed point math.

--Joshua

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A86: Floating Points

From: Ricci Adams <ricci@chipsnet.com>

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