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The object system in Super Road Blaster is extremely impressive as a feat of WLA wrangling. It's not really built for optimum performance, though. For example, a shoot em up would hit the "within one frame" limit with rather few active objects. (Going from what I remember from reading the ...

I took a look at Python. As simple and convenient as scripting languages can be, it seems inconvenient to open up a file expecting an executable just to find that it's a script and there's some interpreter needed. (Then again, I'm the one using .NET...) I can see your reasoning, I guess, but usuall...

Has anyone here used the UART interface on SD2SNES for hardware debugging? There's solder points on the PCB and at least hooks to use it in the SD2SNES firmware.

What is your beef with macros in wla? How do you work with spc/audio code then? Also, at some point I came across your 65816 syntax highlighting, cool stuff! The thing that made me give up on WLA was the inability to use some assembler directives from within a macro (which doesn't make sense since ...

d4s' SNES work is the most impressive publicly shared I've seen. The object oriented runtime created for Super Road Blaster is quite a trip, as is the makefile . Personally I'm taking a new stab at SNES coding at the moment. I decided not to use WLA this time around since it's not likely to be impro...

Actually, it does have a dedicated PLOT instruction specifically meant for rasterization (it places a pixel at the given coordinates and then advances the coordinates to the next pixel). It only covers the filling part though, not the part where it gives shape to the triangle, but it's something. I...

Given that the GSU (aka SuperFX) is only a specialized DSP without hardware support for rasterization, the bottleneck must in most cases have been triangle filling. Then of course, to minimize the amount of filling needed a lot of cycles was probably instead spent on culling and sorting triangles be...

"No cheating" is not really a good trait when dealing with quirky slow machines like these...

The visuals just being "streamed" from ROM is a bit of a let down, but hey; who's anyone to complain when no one else put out a decent SNES demo in over a decade. (:

Also, the really impressive piece of code here is the custom SPC music system, and it sounds damn good too.