So yes, we *can* technically decompile from anywhere, by splitting the
segment after the function we want, then .SEQuentially GROUPing the two
segments back together into one virtual segment matching the original
one. This gives us one more point where we can slot in new compilation
units that emit their code into the same segment, in the order given on
the link command line.
*But* since all ASM in ReC98 heavily relies on being assembled in MASM
mode, we then start to suffer from MASM's group addressing quirk,
described in the "Accessing data in a segment belonging to a group"
section in the Turbo Assembler Version 5 User's Guide.
Which then forces us to manually prefix every single function call
• from inside the group
• to anywhere else within the newly created segment
with the group name. It's stupidly boring busywork, because of all the
function calls you *mustn't* prefix. Special tooling might make this
easier, but I don't have it, and I'm not getting crowdfunded for it.
And while this is faster than porting the entire codebase to Ideal
mode, I'll only do this on rare occasions.
Like the upcoming, particularly awful piece of reverse-engineering.
Completes P0031, funded by zorg.
These are used from quite a few places, so it seems best to just name
them after the rect on the playfield they leave out, which is then
typically where the background picture goes.
…*except* that in doing this, we quickly run up against the symbol
length limit of 32 characters. TASM can expand it via the /mv option,
but TCC only lets you *reduce* it to even less. (Why?)
So, my initial idea of `playfield_fill_around_(x)_(y)_(w)_(h)` wouldn't
have worked. But those coordinates are kinda important, I'd say…
Well then, let's just go with `fillm` instead of `fill_around` then.
"Fill with mask at the given coordinates"… yeah, that would work.
Part of P0029, funded by zorg.
With TH05 definitely being the Galaxy Brain version of this function.
You'll see once I get to push the C decompilation for that one…
Anyway, that covers all shared input functions of TH02-TH05!
Funded by zorg.
And renaming them all to the short filenames they will be decompiled to for
consistency. These functions aren't really immediately hardware-related, as
we've established earlier in the decompilation.
With TH03 changing the calling convention for most of the code from __cdecl to
__pascal, I've been getting more and more confused about this myself. So,
let's settle on the following consistent syntax for function calls:
* C where the calling convention is actually __cdecl and where TASM's emitted
__cdecl code matches the original binary
* PASCAL where the calling convention is actually __pascal
* STDCALL where the calling convention is actually __cdecl, but where
the caller either defers stack cleanup (summing up the stack size of
multiple functions, then cleaning it all in a single "add sp" instruction)
or where the stack is cleared in a different way (e.g. "pop cx").
Unfortunately though, when using the ARG directive to automatically generate
an appropriate RET instruction for the given calling convention, TASM always
emits ENTER and LEAVE instructions even when no local variables are declared,
which greatly limits the number of functions where we can use that syntax. -.-
Note how it's only one *mode* in TH02/TH03, but two *modes* in TH04/TH05,
since you can't select between FM and Beep sound effect modes in TH02/TH03 (or
even disable sounds altogether). Might be a bit confusing, but it seemed
appropriate enough to distinguish the two functions.
Well, the naming.
Even though only TH02 actually uses MIDI (and thus, the MMD driver), every
game since then contains interrupt instructions for both functions. We could
just name it "pmd", since it seems like that's what came first - the AH
numbers of the 6 functions that make up MMD's interrupt API are identical to
those of the equivalent functions in PMD, even including gaps in the numbering
for PMD functions that don't have an equivalent in MIDI. However, except for
the FM sound effect handling and the key display in TH05's Music Room, these 6
functions are all the games actually use. Also, we already distinguish between
PMD and MMD in the driver check functions, and it might be confusing to only
imply PMD from now on?
So, "kaja" it is, collectively referring to the shared aspects of both
drivers.
nmlgc