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I was thinking of this loader: START: call SET_FAST ; load operations to be managed in FAST mode ld sp, #4400-2 ; / ld hl, 0x4000 ; start loading data at 4000h ld hl, LOAD_PROG_BEG ; relocate loader to end of memory ld de, TARGET_LOAD ; / push de ; / ld bc, LOAD_PROG_END - LOAD_PROG_BEG ; / ldir ; ...

So I have the loader starting, but how do I built my datablock to load?

I am using EightyOne to test the program.

Who can help with a working exemple?

The block to load is then 1010 bytes when my idea is working where at the end the stack will get a few more bytes.

I was thinking of this loader: START: call SET_FAST ; load operations to be managed in FAST mode ld sp, #4400-2 ; / ld hl, 0x4000 ; start loading data at 4000h ld hl, LOAD_PROG_BEG ; relocate loader to end of memory ld de, TARGET_LOAD ; / push de ; / ld bc, LOAD_PROG_END - LOAD_PROG_BEG ; / ldir ; _...

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The layout altered again and Russia is added again.

Game is ready but now only for the tributers.

The loader routine is just 17 bytes ("_BEG" to "_END"), and it is relocated to the end of the memory at the program start. Everything else is rewritten as all the rest of the memory during the load process. And become even 16 bytes because the loader stop when it starts overwriting itself (for now ...

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I have at the moment no means to test it (my dev environment is broken), but the following program should be able to fully load 1008 bytes into memory (from 0x4000 to 0x4400 - 16 bytes)... The block to be load should be saved with standard routines and should be equal or bigger than 1008 bytes (if ...

I took off 1 table and now memory will be enough to code the game.

At this moment I only need to add the AI of the computer

The comments say that I can use #4000 to #400B for variables, but the org starts at #4009. Would I start it at #4000 if I wanted to make use of that RAM? Would I leave the rest of this snippet alone for my own game? I assume I could at least use the two bytes with the mem label after initialization...