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pmc · 14 April 2007, 23:21

I've been tweaking with my source code again this evening - I've posted the updated version in the zone...

Following your advice about testing, I made some changes:

I made the displayed screen 4 bytes wider so that I could blit the scrolltext characters off screen to the right and then scroll them on screen. After playing with my blitter shift scrolling routine for a bit it now works properly and scrolls the scrolltext across the middle of the displayed bitplane in a continuous loop.

First, I did this within the wait for vertical blank code you gave me and got it working that way. Next I put it all into the copper interrupt and got it working that way too.

One quick thing about the copper interrupt. You recommended using rte instead of putting the old address on the stack and doing an rts. So I changed the interrupt_done code from:

movem.l (sp)+,d0-d7/a0-a6
move.l cop_int_address,-(sp)
rts

to:

movem.l (sp)+,d0-d7/a0-a6
rte

but then the program didn't work properly, the scrolly still scrolled but it didn't quit when I pressed the left mouse button - am I missing something?

14 April 2007, 23:21	#17
pmc gone Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: completely gone Posts: 1,596	Another step forward... I've been tweaking with my source code again this evening - I've posted the updated version in the zone... Following your advice about testing, I made some changes: I made the displayed screen 4 bytes wider so that I could blit the scrolltext characters off screen to the right and then scroll them on screen. After playing with my blitter shift scrolling routine for a bit it now works properly and scrolls the scrolltext across the middle of the displayed bitplane in a continuous loop. First, I did this within the wait for vertical blank code you gave me and got it working that way. Next I put it all into the copper interrupt and got it working that way too. One quick thing about the copper interrupt. You recommended using rte instead of putting the old address on the stack and doing an rts. So I changed the interrupt_done code from: movem.l (sp)+,d0-d7/a0-a6 move.l cop_int_address,-(sp) rts to: movem.l (sp)+,d0-d7/a0-a6 rte but then the program didn't work properly, the scrolly still scrolled but it didn't quit when I pressed the left mouse button - am I missing something?