Re: Issue compiling BASIC code

[Brian <bpicchi@gmail.com>]

On Dec 2, 4:34 pm, Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Brian wrote:
> > On Dec 2, 3:27 pm, Brian <bpic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> OK, so I'm using the Einstein compiler for a BASIC game I wrote this
> >> week.  It compiles without any errors, but when I run the program, it
> >> crashes during certain actions (sometimes when a sound is initiated,
> >> sometimes when gosubbing to a subroutine, etc).  I can see no issues
> >> with the code and in fact it works flawlessly when ran from BASIC
> >> without compiling it first.  I also tried using another compiler,
> >> TASC, with similar results.  I've written a few programs in the past
> >> and never experienced this.  The only differences between those
> >> programs and this one is that I'm using shape tables here, but can't
> >> see why that would cause this.    I also don't have an obscene number
> >> of nested gosubs or anything.  Any ideas?  Could I send the code to
> >> one of you to see what might be happening?
>
> > By the way, this is an HGR2 program.  The code I was using for loading
> > the shapes is:
>
> > 10 SCALE=1:ROT=0
> > 20 SH = 25000:D$ =  CHR$ (4)
> > 30 PRINT D$;"BLOAD ORBSHAPES,A";SH
> > 40 POKE 232,SH -  INT (SH / 256) * 256:POKE 233, INT (SH / 256)
>
> > Is that the optimal location for it?  Tweaking the "25000" value seems
> > to improve/make worse the crashing incidence.
>
> If it helps, the HGR2 screen is from 16384-24575...
>
> -uso.

It does.  Don't want to speak too soon, but bumping the value up to
35000 seems to have resolved it.  Will keep you posted.