Re: Stepping through Rocky's Boots (to possibly P8 it)

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:04:58 AM UTC-6, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
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> http://1.buric.co/rockyboots2-firstfilecrack.dsk.gz
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> This mostly unoptimized set of filecracks covers most (i.e., not the 
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> splash or menu, or any way of returning to the menu) of the code in the 
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> later version of Rocky's Boots.
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> Each game is split into three parts (L, M and H) with the code I know to 
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> be shared between all games stored in RB.COMMON.  The RB.EXIT file is just 
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> a simple JMP $FF59 at $0800, so that when someone does "return to menu" or 
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> "save game" (only applicable to 4 and 6), it just drops to the monitor.
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> The ProDOS 8 version I uploaded to my server earlier is as done as it can 
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> get; if I added in a splash screen, there'd be no room for the kernel 
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> (this might not be true for the ProDOS 1.0 beta, however).  It is the 
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> older version (which used a DOS 3.3 bootstrap); however, I chose to use 
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> the menu screen from the newer version.
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> If anyone is interested in the very ugly source to MAINMENU, you can find 
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> it at http://1.buric.co/rock8drv.a65 (remember, this is for rocky8.dsk.gz, 
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> not the file I just linked).  This includes a cut-down version of the 
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> SCRUNCH tool from Alpha Plot, which I use to decompress the menu graphic, 
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> and of course the modified loader code from PDOS RDOS.
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> The ROCKY.SYSTEM source code is at http://1.buric.co/getrock.a65 and is 
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> basically a relocated version of the exit code found in MAINMENU.  If I 
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> had the disk space I was going to include the splash screen from the new 
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> version (using the "Gertrude's Secrets" disk to provide the code for the 
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> "paint splat" effect which it shares with the later versions of Rocky's 
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> Boots).
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> -uso.

Could you shove the screen into aux ram?  If you pass it my way I can see if my apple game server image cruncher does anything to get the size down.

-B