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| From | Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.sinclair |
| Subject | Re: Breakout Game |
| Date | 2020-05-06 01:12 +0100 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <20200506011200.7315b487@talktalk.net> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <20200502175329.2811f519@talktalk.net> <r8kg2i$1l9n$1@gioia.aioe.org> <20200502224907.1f723694@talktalk.net> <r8q3sh$1ar6$1@gioia.aioe.org> <y2awo5rntno.fsf@offog.org> |
On Tue, 05 May 2020 00:54:03 +0100 Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org> wrote: > Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> writes: > > > I corrected the sources, loading the ZX81 program with the emulator. > > The actual problem is the game can't be played. The breakout > > graphics are drawn, but the ball is not displayed. Nothing happens. > > > > One more typo: on line 10, 2S6 should be 256 (digit 5 not letter S). > If I load your breakout.p and fix that line, it works! Aha! I thought I'd caught all of those. And, now I see it, I think I know what happened: I was so worried about making sure the machine code was right, I probably just skimmed past everything before it. I couldn't understand why it *almost* worked. Usually when you get a typo in a hex listing like that, it crashes spectacularly. But it makes sense now. Great teamwork, folks! :) -- Duncan Snowden.
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Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-01 23:22 +0200
Re: Breakout Game Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2020-05-02 17:53 +0100
Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-02 21:01 +0200
Re: Breakout Game Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2020-05-02 22:49 +0100
Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-05 00:10 +0200
Re: Breakout Game Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org> - 2020-05-05 00:54 +0100
Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-05 11:33 +0200
Re: Breakout Game Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2020-05-06 01:12 +0100
Re: Breakout Game Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2020-05-06 17:40 +0200
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