8-Bit BTCS - 6502 Reverse Engineering Project

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:11 pm

...*cough*...

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:50 am

Just an update:

I've solved the issue with memory by splitting the reader up into two seperate programs chained together. I reclaimed about 4000 bytes which should be plenty enough to let me finish rendering the unfinished dungeon tile translations.

This of course means it'll take twice as long to debug any errors I make, but such is the price of progress.

Cheer me along, folks. I could use the pick-me-up.

Chaney · Post by **Chaney** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:50 am

Your tenacity is pretty damn impressive.

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:12 am

Yep. Have a beer on us. Actually why not go down to the cellar and pick out a nice bottle of wine. Watch out for the monsters.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:23 am

Skip the beer, I'll have an iced tea.

I present to the Bard's Tale community a fully functional alpha-tested Bard's Tale I Dungeon Layout reader.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2273 ... f6e8ebb871
Download "btdungeoneditor.d64" and load "BOOT.PRG" and run it to see it.

What's new:
- Every single dungeon level should render correctly! However, I need you people to take the time to examine the maps thoroughly and compare them to your own notes to ensure no errors exist.
- The memory issue is solved! For now anyways.

In case you don't read the blurb when it prompts you for the dungeon disk, hit F1 on your emulator to return to the menu and F7 cold-boots the C64.

Now, what I need from you (Horpner, you out there?) people is to tell me if there's any wall/secret door/door combination that hasn't been coded yet. I can't go ahead and put in an edit mode until I know I've nailed every single combination and I fear that all the dungeon levels don't necessarily present all combinations.

Tell me what you all think.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:19 am

The following decimal codes represent tiles that need to be assigned dungeon schemes:
11, 14, 15, 27, 30, 31, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 75, 78, 79, 95, 107, 108, 109, 111,
113, 114, 115, 119, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 131, 135, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 151, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162,
163, 167, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 195,
198, 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 211, 212, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230,
232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255.

126 to go out of 256. Oh what fun.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:43 am

Down to 72 tiles left. Whee haw.

Horpner · Post by **Horpner** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:33 pm

Awesome work!

I'm interested to see what the secret doors look like.

Chaney · Post by **Chaney** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:27 pm

Alright, a few questions and comments.
I am looking over the Wine Cellars-Level 1. Are all of the specials supposed to have the special cursor? I noticed that some of the messages do, some don't
I don't know if it is the emulator that I am using(CCS64), but the top few rows are not accessible-they don't show up and scrolling up doesn't help.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:12 pm

Chaney wrote:Alright, a few questions and comments.
I am looking over the Wine Cellars-Level 1. Are all of the specials supposed to have the special cursor? I noticed that some of the messages do, some don't
I don't know if it is the emulator that I am using(CCS64), but the top few rows are not accessible-they don't show up and scrolling up doesn't help.

Care to post a couple of screenshots?

Chaney · Post by **Chaney** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:53 pm

Here you go
http://www.mediafire.com/myfiles.php

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:47 pm

That takes me to my Mediafire account, not yours.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:51 pm

Horpner wrote:Awesome work!

I'm interested to see what the secret doors look like.

I'm wondering what your input is at this point, Horpity-Horp-Horp-Horp.

Yes, I ate/drank a ton of sugar. Don't mind me for the next few hours.

Chaney · Post by **Chaney** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:28 pm

http://www.mediafire.com/?a2mvm4dqzwm
http://www.mediafire.com/?zi0flnmmwwk
http://www.mediafire.com/?ly2zwna52gz

Chaney · Post by **Chaney** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:30 pm

When I click on that link it goes right to the files. Evidently it is using cookies to go to "my" page.