a few suggestions about petaxian

[cyborgar]

Thanks for taking the time to give me feedback. I've already done some of the quick ones

• Use EXTCOL (I actually still remember the hardware address for screen and border color so I didn't even look in the lib files)
• Using repeat instead of while 1
• Removed () for while (and most if's). I'm just so used to C style syntax these get added automatically :-)
• I now use txt.clear_screen() so I don't have to implement my own
• And I switched to using sys.wait() instead of my own (not so great) wait function

I've only recently taken closer look at the lib files and will make sure I use function from there when appropriate. I didn't really do that initially.

I'm probably not going to use any 65c02 assembly as long as I aim for C64 support. I did scan through the new commands for this processor and there are a few nice improvements.

As you suggest I will sooner or later have a look at custom function instead of setcc. Though at the moment this is fast enough for CX16 and it's only on C64 I have a bit of lag.

I will take a closer look at the joystick stuff. That is a slightly annoying issue.

[cyborgar]

I've added my own workaround now (just checking if "all keys are active" and skipping "retrieving" this value) and uploaded a new "working" version of the game.

I have not checked out the other bug you mentioned yet but will take a closer look later.

I may also want to take a look at the waitvsync as well later, but currently the setcc speed is likely the main limiting factor (as long as I want this to run on C64).

[irmen]

feel free to close this issue if you think you worked through the suggestions enough 👍

[cyborgar]

Yes, I think I can remember the main remaining suggestions anyway (optimization suggestions). I'm mostly testing with the X16 emulator and there is no slowdowns there. And it's basically a lot easier to work with Prog8 code than assembly anyway.