- removed unnecessary subroutines and macros
- renamed zero page locations for less confusing access
- have *not* updated the documentation to reflect this
This is a preliminary update to all disks in the library, along with documentation up to the hires collection. This is simply to make sure the library is backed up; the complete rewrite of the library will be coming after the speaker routines are finished along with the rest of the documentation.
- added cycle and byte count comments
- additionally added status flag clobbering comments
- wrote beginning of final documentation form in markdown for disk 1: REQUIRED
- consolidated macros and subroutines on disk 1
- created alias macros for 65C02, 8080, and Z80 architectures
- entirely rewrote and expanded documentation for disk 1
- rewrote disk 1 demo file to use fewer bytes by using comments instead of _PRN statements
- implemented a software architeture that will span across all libraries in the collection
- added .ASM extension to text sources to help with file attribution on contemporary systems
- slightly modified the naming convention for EXEC files
- fixed minor errors
- getting ready for major changes for 0.6.0.
- be sure to download the 0.5.0 release to ensure proper functionality, as these rountines will not work together in the SRC or BIN folder during the transition
- Beginning to significantly alter documentation
Added lores subroutines and macros, as well as most of the documentation for it. You will not find documentation for the library yet in the quick reference area.
At this point, it is likely that I will be going back to revisit older disks in order to do more optimization, make some strategic file name changes, and add extra subroutines/macros to each library. More content will be added to the documentation as well in order to accomodate multiple audiences.
After that, we will be moving to version 0.6.0, at which point the speaker library and the hires library will be added.
- massive overhaul of architecture
- first round of optimizations
- first draft of the technical manual for the entire library
- reorganization of directory structure
- separated subroutines into own files
- added some, but very little, additional error handling; Leventhal's routines already handle errors pretty well, so there isn't much to add in that regard until a total rewrite of each
- separated each subroutine into own file
- minor changes to comments
- not too many changes for 0.3.0, really. Major changes for this disk will come with 0.5.0
- major bugfixes, especially in 2D arrays
- separated each subroutine into own file
- reconfigured arrays to use 1-based indexing
- Arrays.demo uses macros now
- added overflow error handling to get and put routines
- added error handling
- no more massive library; just a subroutine per file. This is because Merlin doesn't like large files.
- added a "minify" BASIC utility that gets rid of *most* comments in a source textfile. This dramatically reduces space used if you're not terribly interested in non-inline comments.
- TFILL,THLIN,TVLIN and TPUT not directly access the video memory (page one), making for a much faster draw without interfering COUT.
- some stylistic changes, primarily to TFILL
- change required files to minified versions only. The whole files can be found on disk 2.
- got a norovirus so pretty much couldn't do anything requiring sustained attention, so focused on small things here and not on my dayjob. Cool.
- created a required.vars file that separates variables and settings from the other required files. Not minified.
- This current bout of revision will probably be the last, once all initial 6 disks are revamped, that focuses on all subroutines/macros in a given library at a single push. After this round, commits will be done on a subroutine or related file basis.
- added _RDUMP to required library
- added MSWAP to common library
- deleted full required library from each disk except #2, replaced with min versions (still need to update demos accordingly)
- added beginnings of error handling in required library
Nathan D Riggs