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I was under the impression that the use of global and static variables was "considered harmful" nowadays. Global variables have their place, as do macros and all other language features. There are situations where using global variables is perfectly fine. Global variables also interfere w...

Code does not modify itself unless explicitly told to. You are probably a victim of the common buffer overflow (bufferus overflowis).
C++ provides many abstractions to prevent buffer overflows, for instance std::vector<> or std::array<>.

The part you quoted doesn't actually talk about signedness, or integer promotion, it talks about the type of the operand of the ~ operator, which has to be an integer. You're right, I should have quoted the other part I referred to, the usual arithmetic conversions (and integer promotion rules, too...

Gets even worse: uint8_t blah = 0x50; uint8_t result = ~blah >> 4; You'd think it'd store 0x0A? Except it stores 0xFA. Why? Because the ~ operator causes blah to be promoted to int =/ This is confomant behavior. See 6.3.1.8 and 6.5.3.3 of ISO/IEC 9899:2011, "The operand of the unary + or - ope...

I tried the U method tepples mentioned, unfortunately this still does not fix the bug. Casting to long seems to be the only method that works, and I'm pretty sure CC65 is to blame for this. After all this bug does not occur when life is greater than 512 (which would cause an overflow of signed int,...

Hi :) You're confusing OAM data (e.g. sprite position) with the actual pattern data (the 8x8 graphics you see on screen). Each sprite on screen is composed out of 8x8 so called "tiles". The OAM data only defines which tile a sprite uses, not how the tile looks. The graphics data for the ti...

cpow wrote: That's really strange...what do you have set for End-of-Line style in Environment Settings->Code Editor->Whitespace. Do you have "Force consistent" set?

Yep, it is set. I never changed a thing in that menu.

Well, to me it sounded like he wanted to update half of the sprites every other frame. I might have misunderstood his original requirements though. I interpreted it as the following: - I have a 16x16 area in sprite VRAM for each object on screen - I want to animate each sprite at a rate of 30Hz - Du...

tepples wrote:Unless you copy eight 16x16 cells in one block, you have to copy the top and bottom halves separately.

This is what I was referring to. He talks about uploading 8KB of sprite patterns at once. Shouldn't you organize your data in such a way that a block copy can be performed?

If you're using a buffer anyway, why not lay out your sprite data in such a way that a block copy is possible?

Here's another thing I've noted. The editor's line endings are inconsistent. Every time I open a file in Notepad++, for example, it places an empty line between consecutive lines of text. After inspecting it with "Show line endings" it is revealed that line endings actually are CR CR LF, w...

It's working again, thanks a lot

After some digging I believe it is related to one's mapper choice. I converted the NROM example to UNROM like my project is. I also deleted all the graphics and nearly all code. I then marked the code lda #0 sta $00 with the right click options "Set Visualization START/END Marker here" and...

Well, I just created a new NROM asm template and...it works as expected. It doesn't work for my project created with an older version, though. I tried recreating the project just now, but to no avail. I'm trying to whip up a smaller example and report back. Edit: On an unrelated note, the NROM templ...

Did you break the Execution Visualizer some updates ago? It always shows "IN PROGRESS" regardless of being in a loop or not.