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You'll have to get more specific about what the advantages of such a change are if I'm going to understand you. It sounds mostly like it organizational more than anything, to make it easier to work on. What I do understand is that you're working again! PS: I got a good new year's resolution for you...

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The goal will be to remove all the "ref <variable>" stuff and all public members of game classes and replace them with pointers. I've already done this with the tile code today.

Roton2 is going to be considered a "branch" of Roton. Even though it has a significantly different code base. I'll be slowly merging everything I've done with Roton2 back into the main trunk. It sure beats rewriting so much. Test worlds have been added to the repository too, just in case w...

This really should have a more permanent home somewhere. Maybe upload as an attachment?

Got some work done tonight.

Thanks.

Once again, time away got me thinking about things. I just keep thinking that I'm messing something up fundamentally. The code from the Lyon codebase (that is in the first post) is actually really good. I could probably use very large portions of it to speed up the process.

My project for work is coming to a close. Should give me more time to work on this. I still really want to get this finished. Legend of Blacksilver crack was also finished (just need to release through a group and get a proper intro.) Aside from Scharfrichter and Bizhawk (both put on hold indefinite...

I (finally) picked up a book on x86. Happened to find one at a discount bookstore I frequent. It actually covers all the extensions up through 80486. There's some opcodes I thought I understood that had some operations I wasn't aware of. This book is actually quite comprehensive (and heavy!) I've al...

Haha, that's a pretty slick title board :)

Emulation is encapsulated entirely within software. This means, no matter what I do, if it's not touching the system in any platform-specific way, it can be ported. Emulating INT 21,2C (timer) is as simple as querying the current system time and converting it to the return values expected in CH/CL/D...

I'm putting in an INT 21h service provider class. Am I working on too low of a level? :x I figured out ZZT's actual timing mechanism and it relies on constantly calling INT 21h,2C to query the system time in 100ths of a second. There's also the way it writes to PC speaker ports. Should I actually si...

This is like.. attempt 10 or something. Hell, I don't know. That book coming out gives me more inspiration to work on it.

You are observant, SmileyMZX :] I have separated it; the framework that is currently in the WIP is not adequate. I can use the frontend stuff, but the backend is really lacking. Sometimes taking a step away brings fresh ideas to the table. I'm really, really ashamed of how Roton originally turned ou...

Since there's going to be a ZZT book out (and the author has linked Lyon on her website) I think it would be best to get this wrapped up in short order. We're going to make the deadline the release of the book for what would be considered a "final" release. Although the linked one on the f...