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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ scripting engine for game authors.
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| [the issue tracker](https://source.starfort.tech/andrew/akbasic/issues) | **Outstanding defects and gaps.** Labelled by kind and blast radius; `status::grooming` means the scope is not settled yet |
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| [`TODO.md`](TODO.md) | The record: settled design decisions, the deviation register, defects already fixed, and the reasoning behind the measurements. §0.1 first — it retires the byte-for-byte fidelity constraint several later sections were written on |
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| [`README.md`](README.md) | What the project is and why, for somebody who has not seen it |
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| [`docs/`](docs/README.md) | The language itself: twenty-one chapters, verb and function reference. [Chapter 14](docs/14-architecture.md) is the interpreter's architecture — the step loop, the pools, the two kinds of error, and how to debug it. [Chapter 15](docs/15-error-codes.md) is the error-code appendix. [Chapters 17](docs/17-tutorial-breakout.md) and [18](docs/18-tutorial-breakout-artwork.md) are tutorials that build the games in `examples/breakout/`; [Chapters 20](docs/20-tutorial-galaga.md) and [21](docs/21-tutorial-galaga-enemies.md) build the embedding host in `examples/galaga/` |
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| [`docs/`](docs/README.md) | The language itself: eighteen chapters, verb and function reference. [Chapter 14](docs/14-architecture.md) is the interpreter's architecture — the step loop, the pools, the two kinds of error, and how to debug it. [Chapter 15](docs/15-error-codes.md) is the error-code appendix. [Chapters 17](docs/17-tutorial-breakout.md) and [18](docs/18-tutorial-breakout-artwork.md) are tutorials that build the games in `examples/breakout/` |
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| `deps/libakerror/AGENTS.md` | The `ATTEMPT`/`CLEANUP`/`PROCESS`/`HANDLE`/`FINISH` protocol, authoritatively |
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| `deps/libakerror/UPGRADING.md` | 1.0.0's status registry. Required before writing an error code |
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| `deps/<library>/AGENTS.md` | Per-repo rules. Read the relevant one **before editing a submodule** |
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@@ -268,69 +268,6 @@ if(AKBASIC_BUILD_EXAMPLES)
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endforeach()
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endif()
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# The galaga example: a C game on libakgl with the interpreter embedded as its
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# enemy-behavior engine. Chapters 20 and 21 build it from an empty file, so it
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# is compiled and run by every AKGL build rather than rotting in a document.
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# The asset, script and font paths are baked in so the smoke test can launch
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# from any working directory; --assets and --script override them at runtime.
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if(AKBASIC_BUILD_EXAMPLES AND AKBASIC_WITH_AKGL)
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add_executable(akbasic_example_galaga
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examples/galaga/main.c
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examples/galaga/script.c
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examples/galaga/enemies.c
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examples/galaga/player.c)
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target_compile_options(akbasic_example_galaga PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra)
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target_compile_definitions(akbasic_example_galaga PRIVATE
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GALAGA_ASSET_DIR="${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/examples/galaga/assets"
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GALAGA_SCRIPT_PATH="${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/examples/galaga/galaga.bas"
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GALAGA_FONT_PATH="${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/assets/fonts/C64_Pro_Mono-STYLE.ttf")
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target_link_libraries(akbasic_example_galaga PRIVATE akbasic akgl
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SDL3::SDL3 SDL3_ttf::SDL3_ttf SDL3_image::SDL3_image)
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akbasic_instrument(akbasic_example_galaga)
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# Ten seconds of scripted play under the headless drivers: the script boots,
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# a wave enters and forms, the autoplay pilot shoots at it, and the program
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# tears down and exits 0. A tutorial that stops working fails here rather
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# than in front of a reader.
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_add_test(NAME example_galaga COMMAND akbasic_example_galaga --frames 600 --autoplay)
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_set_tests_properties(example_galaga PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 120
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ENVIRONMENT "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy;SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy;SDL_RENDER_DRIVER=software")
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# The boundary's round-trip test: links the real script.c and the real
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# galaga.bas, and fails the moment the two sides of the interop disagree.
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add_executable(akbasic_example_galaga_interop
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examples/galaga/interop_test.c
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examples/galaga/script.c)
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target_compile_options(akbasic_example_galaga_interop PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra)
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target_compile_definitions(akbasic_example_galaga_interop PRIVATE
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GALAGA_SCRIPT_PATH="${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/examples/galaga/galaga.bas")
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target_link_libraries(akbasic_example_galaga_interop PRIVATE akbasic akgl
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SDL3::SDL3 m)
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akbasic_instrument(akbasic_example_galaga_interop)
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_add_test(NAME example_galaga_interop COMMAND akbasic_example_galaga_interop)
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_set_tests_properties(example_galaga_interop PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 120)
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# Regenerating the game figures in docs/ is a deliberate act, never part of
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# a build, for the same reason docs_screenshots is: the PNGs are checked in.
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# Wall-clock dt makes each regeneration differ by a few pixels of starfield,
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# so expect a binary diff every time this runs; commit one only when the
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# content changed on purpose. (docs_galaga_figures, not docs_game_figures:
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# the libakgl submodule already owns that target name.)
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add_custom_target(docs_galaga_figures
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COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy
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SDL_RENDER_DRIVER=software
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$<TARGET_FILE:akbasic_example_galaga> --frames 40
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--screenshot "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/images/galaga-title.png"
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--screenshot-frame 30
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COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy
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SDL_RENDER_DRIVER=software
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$<TARGET_FILE:akbasic_example_galaga> --autoplay --frames 370
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--screenshot "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/images/galaga-wave.png"
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--screenshot-frame 360
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DEPENDS akbasic_example_galaga
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COMMENT "Regenerating the galaga figures in docs/images"
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VERBATIM)
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endif()
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# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Tests.
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#
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@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ version are catalogued in [`TODO.md`](TODO.md) and summarised for a BASIC progra
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| [`docs/`](docs/README.md) | The guide: twenty-one chapters, the language then each hardware area then a reference section for every verb and function, [Chapter 14](docs/14-architecture.md) on the interpreter's own architecture, [Chapter 15](docs/15-error-codes.md) listing every error code, [Chapters 17](docs/17-tutorial-breakout.md) and [18](docs/18-tutorial-breakout-artwork.md) building a whole game twice, and [Chapters 20](docs/20-tutorial-galaga.md) and [21](docs/21-tutorial-galaga-enemies.md) building a C game that embeds the interpreter |
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| [`docs/`](docs/README.md) | The guide: eighteen chapters, the language then each hardware area then a reference section for every verb and function, [Chapter 14](docs/14-architecture.md) on the interpreter's own architecture, [Chapter 15](docs/15-error-codes.md) listing every error code, and [Chapters 17](docs/17-tutorial-breakout.md) and [18](docs/18-tutorial-breakout-artwork.md) building a whole game twice |
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| [`MAINTENANCE.md`](MAINTENANCE.md) | For contributors and maintainers: the documentation-example harness, the three test lists, mutation testing, error-code allocation, style |
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| [`TODO.md`](TODO.md) | Outstanding defects, with file, line and consequence |
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| [`tests/language/README.md`](tests/language/README.md) | The editable language corpus and the rule for changing it |
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@@ -100,50 +100,6 @@ bounded run is usually inside a `FOR` or `GOSUB` body, and a variable created th
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dies when the body pops — silently, with the script reading it correctly right up until
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it stops.
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## Calling a function every frame
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`akbasic_runtime_call_function()` calls a `DEF` by name with values you already
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hold — the entry point a game loop wants. A host that calls it repeatedly signs
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up for three rules the one-shot examples never meet:
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```c wrap=hostcalls
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CATCH(errctx, akbasic_runtime_call_function(&SCRIPT, "THINK", argp, 1, &result));
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/* ...consume the result... */
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CATCH(errctx, akbasic_environment_zero(SCRIPT.environment));
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```
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1. **Reset the value scratch after every call, once the result is consumed.**
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Each call parks its result in the caller environment's per-line scratch
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(`AKBASIC_MAX_VALUES` slots), and a host calling in a loop never crosses the
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line boundary that would reset it. Skip the `akbasic_environment_zero()` and
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the pool drains — measured at under two frames of forty calls — after which
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every call fails with `Maximum values per line reached`. The reset also
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invalidates `result`, which is why it comes after the consumption.
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2. **Force RUN mode once after the boot run.** A multi-line `DEF` body only
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runs while the runtime is in RUN mode, and by the time a host can call, the
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program that filed the definitions has ended. One
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`akbasic_runtime_set_mode(&SCRIPT, AKBASIC_MODE_RUN)` after
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`akbasic_runtime_run()` makes the bodies run, and the mode stays put because
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nothing steps the runtime between calls. Issue #8 tracks making this
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unnecessary.
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3. **Revive after a script error, deliberately.** A BASIC-level error inside a
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called body reports through the sink, answers a stale value, and latches:
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the runtime leaves RUN mode and every later call does nothing. When your
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policy is to absorb the error and keep calling — a game marking one actor
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dumb rather than killing the frame — the revival is two calls:
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`akbasic_runtime_clear_error()`, then `akbasic_runtime_set_mode(RUN)` again.
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The latch is deliberate for *programs* — the first error ends a run, once,
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with one line — so nothing clears it for you.
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Do not pass structures as per-frame arguments. A structure or pointer parameter
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spends a value-pool slot on every call and the pool never reclaims, so the
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interface dies after about a thousand calls — issue #36 has the measurements.
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Bind the instance once with `akbasic_host_bind()` and point it at each object
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with `akbasic_host_rebind()` ([Chapter 16](16-structures.md)), which spends
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nothing per call. The GALAGA tutorial ([Chapters 20](20-tutorial-galaga.md)
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and [21](21-tutorial-galaga-enemies.md)) is this whole recipe as a working
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game, forty calls a frame.
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## Where the output goes
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`PRINT` writes through an `akbasic_TextSink`, which is a record of function pointers plus
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```
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```output
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? 40 : PARSE ERROR TYPE POINT: POINT is a reserved word and cannot name a type
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? 10 : PARSE ERROR TYPE POINT: POINT is a reserved word and cannot name a type
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```
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@@ -685,9 +685,9 @@ seconds asks for fifty frames a second.
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### Why `GOTO` rather than `DO ... LOOP`
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A `DO ... LOOP` around the frame would read better, and it is not usable here: **a `GOTO`
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that jumps out of a `FOR` or a `DO` does not release the loop's scope.** There are 12
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that jumps out of a `FOR` or a `DO` does not release the loop's scope.** There are 32
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scopes, so a game that leaves its main loop once per lost life stops on the
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twelfth one:
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thirty-second one:
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```basic
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N# = 0
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```
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```output
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? 3 : PARSE ERROR Environment pool exhausted at line 3 (12 in use)
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? 3 : PARSE ERROR Environment pool exhausted at line 3 (32 in use)
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```
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RETURN
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LABEL PRESSPAUSE
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IF STATE# = 2 THEN STATE# = 6 : GMTYP# = 0 : BAN$ = "PAUSED"
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IF STATE# = 2 THEN BAN$ = "PAUSED" : GOSUB SETBANNER : RETURN
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IF STATE# = 2 THEN STATE# = 6 : GMTYP# = 0 : BAN$ = "PAUSED" : GOSUB SETBANNER : RETURN
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IF STATE# = 6 THEN STATE# = 2 : BAN$ = "" : GOSUB SETBANNER
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RETURN
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```
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# 20. Tutorial: GALAGA — a C engine with a BASIC brain
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This chapter and [Chapter 21](21-tutorial-galaga-enemies.md) build a GALAGA-style
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fixed shooter from an empty file. The engine — window, starfield, bullets,
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collision, score, screens — is C on libakgl. The enemies think in BASIC: one
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script of `DEF` functions is called once per enemy per frame, and it reads and
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writes the engine's own structures with no marshalling in either direction.
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This chapter builds the engine and proves the boundary works; the next one
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fills in the data structures and the AI.
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The split is the point. Everything mechanical stays compiled, and everything an
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enemy *decides* is a text file you can edit and re-run without rebuilding. It is
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an academic exercise in *how* such an embed is done, not a claim that it is the
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best way to write a GALAGA.
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This is what the two chapters build:
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The finished program is [`examples/galaga/`](../examples/galaga/): four C files,
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one `galaga.bas`, and the assets. You do not need it to follow along, but it is
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the same program assembled.
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```sh norun
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$ cmake -S . -B build-akgl -DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON
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$ cmake --build build-akgl --target akbasic_example_galaga
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$ ./build-akgl/akbasic_example_galaga
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```
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| Key | Does |
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| left / right | move the ship |
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| space | fire — two shots on screen at a time, the classic rule |
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| return | choose a menu entry |
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## What you will do
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- **[Step 1](#step-1-open-a-window)** — open a window, in the one startup order
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that works
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- **[Step 2](#step-2-scatter-a-starfield)** — scatter a starfield and scroll it,
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with no parallax machinery at all
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- **[Step 3](#step-3-put-a-ship-on-screen)** — put a ship on screen from a
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sprite and a character file, and drive it from the keyboard
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- **[Step 4](#step-4-shots-and-collision)** — spawn shots from the actor heap
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and collide them by hand
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- **[Step 5](#step-5-boot-the-interpreter)** — link the interpreter in, load a
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script of definitions, and call one from C
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- **[Step 6](#step-6-the-update-hook)** — replace an actor's update hook so its
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every frame is a BASIC call
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- **[Step 7](#step-7-first-light)** — watch one enemy move under BASIC control,
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and read the same numbers from both sides
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- **[Step 8](#step-8-screens)** — add the title, game over and victory screens
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- **[Step 9](#step-9-run-it-headless)** — run the whole game headless, so CI can
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play it every night
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Each step compiles and runs. The C fragments quote the finished example; the
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file layout there — `main.c` for the harness, `script.c` for the boundary,
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`enemies.c` and `player.c` for the actors — is a good one to copy.
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---
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## Step 1: Open a window
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**Goal: a black window with a title, from the canonical startup order.**
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libakgl has one startup sequence that works, documented at the top of its
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`include/akgl/game.h` and walked through in its own tutorial (libakgl
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docs/20-tutorial-sidescroller.md). The order matters twice: the screen
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properties are read by the renderer, so they must be set before it exists, and
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`akgl_game_init()` does **not** install a physics backend, so the application
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must.
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```c wrap=galagatypes requires=akgl
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static akerr_ErrorContext *startup(void)
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{
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PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
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PASS(errctx, aksl_strncpy((char *)&akgl_game.name, sizeof(akgl_game.name),
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"akbasic galaga tutorial", sizeof(akgl_game.name) - 1));
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PASS(errctx, aksl_strncpy((char *)&akgl_game.version, sizeof(akgl_game.version),
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"1.0.0", sizeof(akgl_game.version) - 1));
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PASS(errctx, aksl_strncpy((char *)&akgl_game.uri, sizeof(akgl_game.uri),
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"net.aklabs.akbasic.galaga", sizeof(akgl_game.uri) - 1));
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PASS(errctx, akgl_game_init());
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PASS(errctx, akgl_set_property("game.screenwidth", "1280"));
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PASS(errctx, akgl_set_property("game.screenheight", "960"));
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PASS(errctx, akgl_render_2d_init(akgl_renderer));
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FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(
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errctx,
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SDL_SetRenderLogicalPresentation(
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akgl_renderer->sdl_renderer,
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1280,
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960,
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SDL_LOGICAL_PRESENTATION_INTEGER_SCALE),
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AKGL_ERR_SDL,
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"%s",
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SDL_GetError()
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);
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akgl_camera->x = 0.0f;
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akgl_camera->y = 0.0f;
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akgl_camera->w = 1280.0f;
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akgl_camera->h = 960.0f;
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PASS(errctx, akgl_physics_init_null(akgl_physics));
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SUCCEED_RETURN(errctx);
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}
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```
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Three of those lines deserve their reasons.
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**The view is 1280x960 because the artwork is ~100 pixels wide.** libakgl draws
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a sprite at the sprite's own size — `akgl_Actor.scale` is overwritten every
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frame, so there is no way to draw one smaller (libakgl docs/12-actors.md) — and
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a ten-column formation of 100-pixel ships needs 1120 pixels plus margins. The
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view is sized to the art rather than the art resized to a view.
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**`akgl_physics_init_null()` is not optional.** Skip it and the first
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`akgl_game_update()` calls through a NULL `simulate` pointer. Null physics
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accepts every call and moves nothing, which is exactly right here: whatever
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writes `x` and `y` directly is the mover, and in this game that will be BASIC.
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**Error handling is the house protocol.** Every function returns
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`akerr_ErrorContext *`, `PASS` propagates, `ATTEMPT`/`CATCH`/`CLEANUP` brackets
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anything that must unwind. libakgl's docs/04-errors.md teaches it; this chapter
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just uses it, with two rules that keep the fragments compiling: **`CATCH` is
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only legal inside an `ATTEMPT` block, and `PASS` everywhere else** — swap them
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and the compiler objects about a stray `break` — and `main()` alone ends its
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block with `FINISH_NORETURN(errctx)` instead of `FINISH`, because `FINISH`
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expands a `return` of the context that an `int`-returning function cannot
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compile:
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```c wrap=galagatypes requires=akgl
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static int FAILED = 0;
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int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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{
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PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
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(void)argc; (void)argv;
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ATTEMPT {
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/* CATCH each stage in order: startup, assets, the script boot,
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* the spawns, then the frame loop. */
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} CLEANUP {
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/* ...teardown, every call wrapped in IGNORE()... */
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} PROCESS(errctx) {
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} HANDLE_DEFAULT(errctx) {
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LOG_ERROR_WITH_MESSAGE(errctx, "galaga could not run");
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/* Set a flag rather than returning: leaving a HANDLE block early
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* skips FINISH's release and leaks the context's pool slot. */
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FAILED = 1;
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} FINISH_NORETURN(errctx);
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return FAILED;
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}
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```
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The status codes this game raises are `AKERR_NULLPOINTER`,
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`AKERR_VALUE`, `AKERR_KEY`, `AKERR_IO`, `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS`, `AKGL_ERR_SDL`
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and `AKGL_ERR_HEAP` — there is no code this tutorial invents.
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The includes the engine files draw on, so nothing later has to be guessed —
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the SDL satellites use their own prefixes (`SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h`, not
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`SDL3/SDL_ttf.h`):
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```c wrap=galagatypes requires=akgl
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#include <stdbool.h>
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#include <stdint.h>
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#include <string.h>
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#include <SDL3/SDL.h>
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#include <SDL3_image/SDL_image.h>
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#include <SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h>
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#include <akerror.h>
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#include <akstdlib.h>
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#include <akgl/actor.h>
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#include <akgl/character.h>
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#include <akgl/controller.h>
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#include <akgl/draw.h>
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#include <akgl/error.h>
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#include <akgl/game.h>
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#include <akgl/heap.h>
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#include <akgl/physics.h>
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#include <akgl/registry.h>
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#include <akgl/renderer.h>
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#include <akgl/sprite.h>
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#include <akgl/text.h>
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#include <akgl/ui.h>
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#include <akgl/util.h>
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```
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The frame loop is the standard bracket, with one addition you will meet in
|
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Step 6 — for now, events in, world drawn, frame out:
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|
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```c wrap=galagahost requires=akgl
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while ( SDL_PollEvent(&event) == true ) {
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CATCH(errctx, akgl_controller_handle_event((void *)&akgl_game.state, &event));
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}
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CATCH(errctx, akgl_renderer->frame_start(akgl_renderer));
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CATCH(errctx, akgl_game_update(NULL));
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CATCH(errctx, akgl_renderer->frame_end(akgl_renderer));
|
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```
|
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|
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`akgl_game_update(NULL)` is update-every-actor, step-the-physics,
|
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draw-the-world. It neither clears nor presents; the `frame_start` and
|
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`frame_end` calls own that.
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|
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## Step 2: Scatter a starfield
|
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|
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**Goal: a scrolling two-depth starfield, from an array and one draw call.**
|
||||
|
||||
No parallax facility exists in libakgl and none is needed. A fixed array of
|
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stars, advanced per frame and drawn with `akgl_draw_point()` between
|
||||
`frame_start` and `akgl_game_update()`, is the whole feature. Two speed bands
|
||||
give the depth for free — the slow band reads as far away:
|
||||
|
||||
```c wrap=galagatypes requires=akgl
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||||
#define GALAGA_STARS 96
|
||||
|
||||
static struct
|
||||
{
|
||||
float x;
|
||||
float y;
|
||||
float speed;
|
||||
Uint8 bright;
|
||||
} STARS[GALAGA_STARS];
|
||||
|
||||
static akerr_ErrorContext *starfield_draw(float dt)
|
||||
{
|
||||
SDL_Color color = { 255, 255, 255, 255 };
|
||||
int i = 0;
|
||||
PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
|
||||
|
||||
for ( i = 0; i < GALAGA_STARS; i++ ) {
|
||||
STARS[i].y += STARS[i].speed * dt;
|
||||
if ( STARS[i].y > 960.0f ) {
|
||||
STARS[i].y -= 960.0f;
|
||||
}
|
||||
color.r = STARS[i].bright;
|
||||
color.g = STARS[i].bright;
|
||||
color.b = STARS[i].bright;
|
||||
PASS(errctx, akgl_draw_point(akgl_renderer, STARS[i].x, STARS[i].y, color));
|
||||
}
|
||||
SUCCEED_RETURN(errctx);
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Seed the array once at startup — even indexes slow and dim (speed 40, bright
|
||||
110), odd indexes fast and bright (speed 110, bright 220) — and the effect is
|
||||
done. A point is exactly one pixel (libakgl docs/09-drawing.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Step 3: Put a ship on screen
|
||||
|
||||
**Goal: a player actor, drawn from a character file, moving on key input.**
|
||||
|
||||
The art is Kenney's Space Shooter pack, CC0, used byte for byte — see
|
||||
[`examples/galaga/assets/art/PROVENANCE.md`](../examples/galaga/assets/art/PROVENANCE.md)
|
||||
for what each file is. An actor gets its looks from a **character**, which maps
|
||||
actor state words to **sprites** (libakgl docs/10 and 12). Both are JSON; load
|
||||
sprites first, because a character names its sprites and a character loaded
|
||||
first fails on the first name it cannot find.
|
||||
|
||||
These are the names, so the loading lists and every
|
||||
`akgl_actor_set_character()` call in both chapters agree — each `sprite_*.json`
|
||||
and `character_*.json` lives in `assets/`:
|
||||
|
||||
| Character | Sprite(s) it maps | Worn by |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `galaga_player` | `galaga_player` | the ship |
|
||||
| `galaga_bee` | `galaga_bee` | bees |
|
||||