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Re: Doom floor texturing
Posted by: dml Jan,23.2013-18:01 

Well it looks like I didn't remember my facts very clearly about memory usage in the DSP doom engine. There is a nasty P:INT and Y:EXT overlap which needs to be watched so I was always moving things around and shaving to keep the internal buffers internal not to spill into program space...

But as for the rest of the EXT memory - I did a small test filling the DSP with marker words ($AAAAAA) and ran around Doom level 1 @ 320x200 to see how big the spanbuffers got in X: and Y:, and it turned out only to be about 6k each. So there is probably a reliable 8k free at the top of X: and Y: as it is without refactoring any code.

So I can probably cache 4 truecolour floor textures in there @ 64x64! Or twice that many if stored 12bit but it's probably not worth messing with that.

Definitely need to try this :) Will start with a stub that just transfers a dummy texture at the appropriate time and then serves a flat colour from the host port and do some speed comparisons with that. If it looks promising I can then do the DSP bit properly.

Thanks again







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