Starfield

[flash]

I found this scrap of code. I must have made several revisions to it, each time counting the clock cycles to try and get the fastest code I could. I believe this plotted individual stars to a block of character tiles (much like my DS starfield test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNQBocChc8&list=UU_56a9OV0yHlcKwszacxsRA)

Anyway, check it out lol... (christ I really was ANAL)

[Sokurah]

I must have made several revisions to it, each time counting the clock cycles to try and get the fastest code I could.

Nerdy?...anal?...perhaps, but that's what one needed to do if you wanted the best results.

...or so I'm told.

Btw, I've started work on a new Spectrum game, and that runs currently way too slow (and it's only a bloody puzzle game), but I'll optimize and rewrite as I go along. 

[flash]

A spectrum puzzle game - intrigued!

It is amazing how much you can speed up ASM code with a bit of 'fiddling' though.

[Sokurah]

Yeah, putting a bit of thought into your coding can make a lot of difference. I rarely make very efficient code from the start though (he said as if he'd done a load of games in assembler) - early on I focus on getting the framework right and things on the screen, and then later when I can move things around and see them working I start optimising.

On this project I'm drawing on a backbuffer and moving that to the screen area, and that is pretty slow the way it is right now - which is slowing things down, but I'm expecting to get a 100% speed increase on that routine once I put my mind to it.
...the little mind I have.

Yeah, well, so...a bit of 'fiddling' can make a bit difference.