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- From: Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Writing a StarField. Which method is best?
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- Message-ID: <Paul_Trauth.13pk@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 15:37:15 CST
- Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.
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- In a message dated Sat 21 Nov 92 7:24, Shogun@dialix.oz.au (matthew Fitzge
- wrote:
-
- SF> Some coders (like myself) can't stand using includes, ok, system
- SF> coding is
- SF> a little different - everyone has their own methods! I know most of
- SF> the
- SF> hardware registers off the top of my head so why use symbolic
- SF> names??? No-one
- SF> sees y code except me and the other guys in my group, and I document
- SF> my
- SF> code ALOT - which is another reason why I don't use includes!!
- I suppose it's a personal decision. Myself, i do a lot of hardware-level
- coding. I usually include just a couple things: hardware/custom.i (and
- maybe some of the other hardware includes), exec_lib.i, and gfxbase.i...
- (the last two are used in my friendly machine takeover/restore code. i like
- symbolic names.)
- Then again, back on the C64, i had a couple of stored symbol tables (close
- enough to includes...) that were the complete symbolic name lists of the
- VIC-II, SID, and CIA chips. I'd read in the ones i was using on every
- assemble.
- I feel i have better things to use the space in my brain for than
- memorizing cryptic hex offsets. (that said, i do STILL remember the offsets
- for quite a few important VIC-II registers. sigh.)
-
- SF> I still prefer to do EVERYTHING in hardware... (if I want to multi-
- SF> task then
- SF> I'll use system library functions etc!) It's fast and it makes your
- SF> brain
- SF> work harder figuring out your own algorithms, you must admit that
- SF> when coding
- SF> with libraries, alot of the work is already done for you!
- True, but even when hardware coding (as i said) you can include the names
- of the registers.
-
- I have enough trouble understanding my own code sometimes - having the
- symbolic register names helps it a lot, for me.
-
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