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nmlgc e6294c2c1a [Reverse-engineering] [th02/th04/th05] Score update and display
The TH02 version is a piece of cake…

… but TH04 starts turning it into this un-decompilable piece of
unnecessarily micro-optimized ZUN code. Couldn't have chosen anything
better for the first separate ASM translation unit.

Aside from now having to convert names of exported *variables* to
uppercase for visibility in ASM translation units, the most notable
lesson in this was the one about avoiding fixup overflows. From the
Borland C++ Version 4.0 User's Guide:

	"In an assembly language program, a fixup overflow frequently
	 occurs if you have declared an external variable within a
	 segment definition, but this variable actually exists in a
	 different segment."

Can't be restated often enough.

Completes P0032, funded by zorg.
2019-09-21 14:01:47 +02:00
nmlgc 058595b1d9 [Reverse-engineering] [th04/th05] Score variables
In which ZUN uses little-endian BCD as the exclusive internal storage
for both the current and the high score. Which are then updated using,
once again, ridiculously micro-optimized ASM code that uses the
venerable x86 BCD instructions.

Funded by -Tom-.
2019-03-04 21:42:11 +01:00