v0.11 released

[oompa loompa]

I decided to release v0.11 today.
here are the updates:

- Now added the Let command
- When the Open/Save dialog is opened for the first time, its default directory will be the compiler's directory
- The Library command can now handle long file names
- Added the command: Incasm, which is like the Library command, except it doesn't search the "slibrary" directory for the assembler file. It either searches the project's own directory, or the compiler's directory if the source code is untitled
- Forgot to add the Ignore SCD Commands option. It is now added
- Fixed a bug with the Sega CD commands that froze the main CPU
- Fixed the LoadSCD command to disable interrupters when loading a cluster
- Fixed the text DMA commands (CLS, Line Feeds) to work for the different planes
- Fixed the clear length in CLS
- Big sprite commands added
- Fixed DataFile to recognize labels not on the same line
- Now aligns DataFile to EVEN bounds
- For the 4th time, the FOR...next loop has been recoded, now even faster
- The one update that makes me the most happiest: compiler speed increase =D - by 200 times. The compiler doesn't use VB's buffers to store the compiled assembly file no more =). This bypasses all of VB's overhead, and makes it compile 100,000 number of lines of print "hi" in 48 seconds on a 1.2 ghz computer running number line checks.
- For the VB users, i created an option to save BASIC files with a .bex extension
- Fixed a bug where if you go print "wassup":a=a+1, it messes up
- Added a feature to the ASM command, where if you leave the second argument blank, the lines after ASM are the assembly source, and it end when it encounters an END ASM command.
- Added the Gets command, and changed the Input command around to act like the real basic Input command

[Tom Maneiro]

One word: AWESOME!
It's fast as hell! My 6218-line togepi pic demo only took 2.5 secs to compile! (it was 620 seconds with v<0.10)

If you wish, i can provide A INSTALLER!!! (associating .bex files with BasiEgaXorz executable). But first you need to add commandline file loading support

like: basiegaxorz.exe q:\folder\to\my\sources.bex

--EDIT--

- The one update that makes me the most happiest: compiler speed increase =D - by 200 times. The compiler doesn't use VB's buffers to store the compiled assembly file no more =). This bypasses all of VB's overhead, and makes it compile 100,000 number of lines of print "hi" in 48 seconds on a 1.2 ghz computer running number line checks.

It tooks 103.92 secs on my Celeron 700 to compile 100000 lines of 'print "foo"'

[Tom Maneiro]

mipagina.cantv.net/tomman/temp/MC_BOOTSCR.7z
now with a photo

While i was developing this, i noticed two small bugs:
1)If i load some tiles, then draw it on screen, loading the pallete for that tiles on the first pallete (0), tiles draws OK. BUT if i use INK command for change "ink color", and then do the drawing stuff, tiles draws with wrong colors, using the pallette indicated on the ink command. Does "ink" changes the active pallette?
2)TrapCPU does not show a prompt, instead, it resets the program! But if i hold a key, i can see the "Breakpoint at XXX (START: resume)" text. I release the key, game resets... Is this a bug, or that function was planned in that way?

[oompa loompa]

>> If you wish, i can provide A INSTALLER!!! (associating .bex files with BasiEgaXorz executable). But first you need to add command.....................

Not gonna use an installer =P. its like pushing more toward windows gui's =D. i'll add command line stuff though

>> It tooks 103.92 secs on my Celeron 700 to compile 100000 lines of 'print "foo"'

that's slow XD. depending on how many tasks are running, and how much resources are free, it will compile slower. also if your running gens with a rom runniing, that too will slow it down a lot. 100000 lines of code is not typical for a genesis program anyways =P, since it makes a 6mb rom =D.

>> 1)If i load some tiles, then draw it on screen, loading the pallete for that tiles on the first pallete (0), tiles draws OK..........................

Yes, the drawtiles and drawtile command use the pallette from the ink command. Sprites do not do this

>> 2)TrapCPU does not show a prompt, instead, it resets the program! But if i hold a key, i can see the "Breakpoint..............

Yea, its a bug, i'll fix. It use to work lol maybe it was when i was changing some things around

[Tom Maneiro]

Ben said:

>> It tooks 103.92 secs on my Celeron 700 to compile 100000 lines of 'print "foo"'

that's slow XD. depending on how many tasks are running, and how much resources are free, it will compile slower. also if your running gens with a rom runniing, that too will slow it down a lot. 100000 lines of code is not typical for a genesis program anyways =P, since it makes a 6mb rom =D.

Executing Mozilla 1.7b {Build ID: 2004031616}, with 4 tabs open, Mozilla Mail, Dial-Up networking, a Explorer window, and the mem load at 100+ (10 MB free of 112 MB, swapfile at 131 mb). Notice that the dial-up windows RAS app "steals" ~20% of the processor load while connected