Commander X16

Damn dudes. Unreal that this is on 6502.

Wow, first time I saw a still of that scene. It is bad form to have a label name which can also be interpreted as a hexadecimal value.

Why are the filenames listed like that? The file system doesn't do lowercase letters.

I've been working on a 3d first person shooter as well (on the back burner while I rewrite the META/L editor). My advice is to do as much precalculation as possible, and as few calculations at runtime as possible. For instance, I have 8 banks set aside for a single lookup table to convert a 16 bit d...

No, the language can't be extended; the opcodes are hardwired. Even if we could, STA A would be a useless command, "store the contents of the accumulator in the accumulator".

This seems like a good place to mention that the audio on all my video clips have been 16 bit mono at 12970 Hz, almost exactly equal to an AUDIO_RATE of 34 ($22). That's about the minimum frequency for voices without distortion. I've been dividing it up into chunks of 2594 bytes for 1/10 of a second...

This is that. This is 8-Bit Productions asking you not to use the bitwise Rockwell instructions, even though they're part of the hardware that's currently being shipped, because it helps make your software compatible with future hardware. In that case, let's ditch the 65c02 right now, just ship wit...

That two byte stride should be one byte. You need to push two bytes (ggggbbbb 0000rrrr) for a single palette entry.

If we're only using the 6502 commands then there is no point in using the 65816 at all. It isn't just the 32 Rockwell commands we can't use because they won't work on a 65816. We can't use 57 commands that are unique to the 65816 either, because they won't work on a machine with a 65c02. We wouldn't...

I'm currently rewriting the META/L editor to work with both 65816 and 65c02. I'm adding a couple new features too.