Drive A: updated
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 6:48 am
The cloud CPM A: has been updated to include Production Dave's game updates. On A: User Area 3 you will find tetris.com, snake.com and invaders.com
I noticed some things. I guess it's because the game tries to read and save the high score. It appears to be struggling to do that. I did all my testing on drive C: user area 0 and it seems to be no issue there. I suspect it's something to do with the file io routines i have. They just rely on standard CP/M fileio. I noticed that the files are saved back to USER 0. which must be a CP/M thing I was not aware of. I will look to see if there is a way to make it go to the same USER area. I don't know if this is a cloudCPM thing or general CPM thing so I have to do some more testing.
You might experience delays loading the game, ending a game and returnning to the menu etc. These are the times the score is actually saved. This will apply on SNAKE and TETRIS too.
As these games are not targeted specifically at cloud CP/M I wonder what the best solution is? -
I have tested this on cloudCP/M and Ishkur CP/M. In ishkur CP/M it seems to be okay running in User Area 1 of the B Drive, but dat files are still saved back to user area 0. So that part of the issue is not unique to Cloud CP/M.
I could be making a big deal of nothing here. I'd like to know what other people experienced and if moving the file to C:0> or D:0> helps the situation any.
For now, I suggest folks move the games over to C:0> and play from there. It's trivial to do and will let you have fun.
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A:0> C:
C:0> dir
No file
C:0> A:
A:0> rncmd 3/A:INVADERS.COM 0/C:INVADERS.COM
++++++++++... etc,
24320 Bytes copied
A:0> C:
C:0> invaders
Then it will copy the game over to C:0>
Then you play the game from C:0> instead of A:3>
Alternatively you can get the binaries and stage them into your D drive using cpmdrive.com - if you do this, I suggest still putting the games into the corresponding folder for User 0.
You can also use a:cloudgui to copy the files over. Before doing this, though, make sure you have a C drive by changing to it first. If you don't have one CloudCPM will download a blank for you and save it in your IA/Store/Temp folder.
I have tested this approach with a clean system - IE: I emptied out the cache in Store/temp on the IA.
Until I figure out the issue with running out of different user areas, this will provide the best experience for you.
For reference the two functions that I think are causing issues are:
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uint16_t getHighScore() {
uint16_t hs;
#if BIN_TYPE == BIN_CPM
FILE * fp = fopen("invaders.dat", "r");
if (fp) {
fscanf(fp, "%d", &hs);
} else {
hs = 0;
}
fclose(fp);
#else
hs = 0;
#endif
return hs;
}
void setHighScore(uint16_t hs) __z88dk_fastcall {
#if BIN_TYPE == BIN_CPM
FILE * fp = fopen("invaders.dat", "w");
fprintf(fp, "%d", hs);
fclose(fp);
#else
(void)hs;
#endif
}