Conway's Game of Life for CP/M-65

davidgiven / cpm65

CP/M for the 6502

BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License

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Conway's Game of Life for CP/M-65 #76

Closed venomix666 closed 9 months ago

venomix666 commented 9 months ago

Implementation of Conway's game of life using the screen driver. Tested on my own computer build which I am porting CP/M-65 to, and on emulated BBC Micro.

davidgiven commented 9 months ago

Excellent, thank you!

Just a few notes on looking at the code:

constructing each line in a buffer and using screen_putstring should be faster as you don't need to go through the overhead of the screen dispatch routine for every character. I don't know if it is faster, but it should be, and would be interesting to find out.
there are supposed to be some constants defined for reading things like cursor keys. Apparently I never implemented that...

venomix666 commented 9 months ago

I thought about using screen_putstring as well, but I got some odd results when trying to use it from C, and I did not have time to investigate it further. It seems like the pointer does not make it to the BIOS in the expected fashion, but I could be mistaken as I have not looked too much at it.

Constants for cursor keys would be useful!