@haitchfive on Nostr: In order to develop this kind of thing in the past, I would have probably used C, or ...
In order to develop this kind of thing in the past, I would have probably used C, or a macroassembler, or I would have prototyped it in BASIC or Pascal, replacing part by part with machine code routines to gain efficiency.
But now I'm trying a new development method I hadn't used before. Because I have internal access to my emulator, and it's written in Go, I have a set of Go routines that can "print" and "plot" to ZX Spectrum display memory (a 6192-byte framebuffer) quite fast, without the cycles of trial and error, compilation, and upload to an emulator that you usually have when you use a "normal" toolchain.
So I can just implement the algorithms I want in Go, in the same binary as the emulator, and I can manage cycles, and memory better and translate those algorithms to #Z80 code only after they work perfectly, and without any toolchain-inflicted delays, zero.
If I'm successful in the long run, I will blog about it more in detail, and hopefully help others once this completely non-standard methodology is refined and mature.
#ZXSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #retrocomputing #retrogaming
But now I'm trying a new development method I hadn't used before. Because I have internal access to my emulator, and it's written in Go, I have a set of Go routines that can "print" and "plot" to ZX Spectrum display memory (a 6192-byte framebuffer) quite fast, without the cycles of trial and error, compilation, and upload to an emulator that you usually have when you use a "normal" toolchain.
So I can just implement the algorithms I want in Go, in the same binary as the emulator, and I can manage cycles, and memory better and translate those algorithms to #Z80 code only after they work perfectly, and without any toolchain-inflicted delays, zero.
If I'm successful in the long run, I will blog about it more in detail, and hopefully help others once this completely non-standard methodology is refined and mature.
#ZXSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #retrocomputing #retrogaming