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My toolchain is Sublime Text 3 -> KickAssembler -> XVIC, with a build command (for a cartridge) that looks like this: "cmd": ["java", "cml.kickass.KickAssembler", "main.asm" , "-log", "main.log", "-o", "main.bin", "...

I've just bought one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00 ... UTF8&psc=1

Not exactly cheap, but good value for money.

VIC++ is suspended due to RL time constraints, and FAST-40. :) The stable raster logic I describe does work, as far as it goes - a deterministic sequence of instructions with a known cycle-count (and thus a predictable IRQ impact) is required to complete the technique, and I haven't written about th...

Aha. Now, young padowan, you are ready for the trials.
http://vicpp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/in- ... sibly.html

KickAssembler, with Eclipse+WUDSN IDE.

This might be interesting for you: http://vicpp.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/in- ... tions.html

I went into 'bunker mode' regarding updates on FAST-40 - but silence doesn't mean inactivity! :D 2014/15 have been tough years (due to a bereavement) and I haven't had as much time to work on stuff at home as I did a year or two before that. I promise to post an update soon though. VIC++ is a much m...

You should definitely do some background reading on this topic - others here have done or are doing similar things.

Keep plugging away - maybe you'll surprise everyone with something that hasn't been seen before.

And in case you're wondering what that mysterious alluded-to-but-not-elucidated POKE is, it is POKE 808,100. This disables RUN/STOP, RESTORE, and LIST.

That is very cool - reminds me a bit of Goldrunner on the ST.

One minor criticism is that the typeface is quite hard to read - does it really say 'BONER MODE' underneath 'PRESS FIRE'...?

Well, damn. That sucks. I probably refer to his annotated disassembly at least once a week, on average.

RIP Lee.

Fastest way to initialise .A, .X and .Y to zero, if you don't mind undocumented opcodes: ZAX // 2 bytes, 2 cycles (encode as .word $00AB) TAY // 1 byte, 2 cycles ZAX is 'Zero .A and .X', using the zero-as-operand variant of LAX - which is the undocumented 'Load .A and .X' instruction. LAX is unstabl...

Hmm, is that the Memory Circuit in Voodoo Castle? My memory is a bit vague, so I might have the wrong game. I liked the unofficial Easter Egg in some of the games - if I remember rightly, typing the left-arrow character would sometimes trigger a strange debug mode where the game would spew a chunk o...

Copypaste typo whilst extracting the code snippet. Wanted to demonstrate that other directives work OK inside the if-block, it's just '.import source' that has a problem.

Might have found a bug in Kick. Reported it today. .eval makecart = true // Conditional assembly trigger - override for cartridge .import source "opcodes.asm" // Undocumented opcode pseudocommands .import source "storage.asm" // FAST-40 memory definitions .import source "mem...