[Coco] Lode Runner playable demo available

[nickma2 at optusnet.com.au]

 No.

HOFF in the GIME only works when you set HOFFSET mode. When this
happens, the standard 160 byte wide display screen becomes a 256 byte
wide screen that displays 160bytes at a time (which you can scroll
within the 256byte area).

Unless your code is written for this 256 byte wide screen, it will
look garbled.

But, you can just set the start of display (At work and don't have my
text with me for the actual address). It can be set in increments of 8
bytes so in a 512K byte RAM area you can choose 65526 start points
(512k / 8).

Whatever is being set here, just subtract 1 to move the image start to
the left which effectively moves your display area 8 bytes (16 pixels
for 320x200) to the right.

Nick

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From: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
To:"CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
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Sent:Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:15:58 +1000
Subject:Re: [Coco] Lode Runner playable demo available

 That's what I meant when I said I'd tried it - I tried fiddling the
GIME 
 registers to shift the display but got completely unexpected results 
 when I did. I can shift the display left (eg. set HOFF=2) but of
course 
 that's no good for me. I need to effectively set HOFF=-2. I tried
what I 
 thought would achieve that, but the display went horribly wrong.

 I'll go into it in more detail and try to elicit more advice when I'm

 preparing the next beta release, but for now I've got other fish to
fry 
 and I don't want to get hung up on this detail.

 Regards,

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