Gemix Studio

Sempiternam wrote:Hello people.

Thanks to those who checked the code and those who want to see more code coming on.

There are the new Rar files uploaded. The first post will be edited to put new files and new versions of those that are there.

"Demonio" was the original name for this game but if you think 'The Demon' is a better one it will be. I put Demonio because of the 8 characters for DIV2 on MS-DOS, that's because files has the 8th character for a number version.

An old deleted version had music.
I will be working on playing code before add some soundfx and music. Balancing enemies is next step, then will be scrolling.

First I need to know what is happening with memory when the game is running (game moving slow - progressive memory error I think).

See you next time. Thanks for everything.

PD: I want to do something with this project, may be then I'll continue another.

Sempiternam wrote:Thanks to give me your answers. It will be great to see your support on each step.

Sempiternam wrote:Hello people.
Here is the false error if found.

(Running Demonio4.PRG on Gemix)

GEMIX: Error en ejecución
ERROR_118: Hay demasiados textos activos en el programa.
LOCATION: WRITE_INT
PARAMETER: 1
VALUE: 0

Deleted code lines:
// write_int(0, 10, 10, 4, OFFSET x);
// write_int(0, 30, 10, 4, OFFSET y);
// write_int(0, 40, 20, 4, OFFSET Energia);

(Rerunning Demonio4.PRG: No errors)

Now Demonio4AI file is a perfect DIV2 'AI code' example for Gemix. The first post has the updated files (21 November 2009).

- Next Step: Game Balance -

program test;
begin
   repeat
      write(0, 160, 100, 4, "DIV"); // after 512 texts created DIV throw the runtime error 118, OK correct
    
      frame;
   until(key(_esc));
end

program test;
begin
   repeat
      write(0, 160, 100, 4, "DIV"); // the text is recreated on each time, ERROR! this is wrong beaviour
    
      frame;
   until(key(_esc));
end

program test;
begin
   repeat
      write(0, 160, 100, 4, "Gemix"); // after 65536 texts created Gemix throw the runtime error 118, OK correct
    
      frame;
   until(key(_esc));
end

program test;
begin
   set_write_behaviour(wri_overwrite); // set the behaviour overwrite for texts with the same properties.

   repeat
      write(0, 160, 100, 4, "Gemix"); // the text is recreated on each time (is not the best use, but OK)
    
      frame;
   until(key(_esc));
end

program test;
begin
   write_int(0, 160, 100, 4, &x); // the text is created one time (the best performance)

   repeat
      x++; // the engine automatically update the text that use this variable with the new value
    
      frame;
   until(key(_esc));
end