HonestFlames
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What was your proudest or most memorable programming achievement? Mine was many years ago, when I had my first A1200 all expanded nicely and lovingly configured with a great working environment.
I'd bought DevPac 3. Got SAS/C installed. GoldED configured to perfection and a newly purchased set of OS 3.1 developer floppies. I'd printed a good portion of the RKRM's and studied the hardware reference info.
It all came together in one little assembly program. It was a tiny little intro which took over the screen (in an OS friendly way) and displayed some text, one character at a time, per frame, whilst playing a small chip-tune. Just 1 bitplane being written to, but the screen and palette set up so that the text had a shadow effect.
Everything just came together perfectly. I knew how to set up the palette in 24-bit colour and how to tie the little mod-player into my own source. I knew it was pointless using the blitter, so used the CPU to copy each character into place (from a custom font included into the executable). It was that one, rare occasion where no debugging was needed and the thing compiled and ran on the first go.
If only all my programming projects turned out like that :roll:
I'd bought DevPac 3. Got SAS/C installed. GoldED configured to perfection and a newly purchased set of OS 3.1 developer floppies. I'd printed a good portion of the RKRM's and studied the hardware reference info.
It all came together in one little assembly program. It was a tiny little intro which took over the screen (in an OS friendly way) and displayed some text, one character at a time, per frame, whilst playing a small chip-tune. Just 1 bitplane being written to, but the screen and palette set up so that the text had a shadow effect.
Everything just came together perfectly. I knew how to set up the palette in 24-bit colour and how to tie the little mod-player into my own source. I knew it was pointless using the blitter, so used the CPU to copy each character into place (from a custom font included into the executable). It was that one, rare occasion where no debugging was needed and the thing compiled and ran on the first go.
If only all my programming projects turned out like that :roll: