Starting a fighting game

[wizardlife]

If I followed your reply correctly it seems like this is just one way of dozens of how to load in bytes from an image into memory. Then again it could just be me. I think I understand the whole byte system allot better now. For example the pallate makes almost perfect sense to me. Still I see some gray in the code that doesn't quite make sense to me yet. But not allot this time.

It's simply data that you need to get from the file into memory, and ultimately onto the screen. There are lots of way you could do it, and when you get into compressed files, dozens of ways to could decode the info.

Going back to the DIM statement, the second value is the amount of sprites we can store. Now how exactly do we know how many sprites to store, and are we limited by anything. In other words how did you know to decide on 252 sprites.

Memory is divided into Segments. Within each segment is 64000 bytes. So a memory address is the segment and the offset. But a single data type (read: array) can't be larger than 64k.

Concerning the first variable in the DIM statememnt. I think you explained that so clearly that 5th grader could understand. So if I had 8x8 sprites, my dim would look like the following:

Code:

DIM sprite(65, ???)

That is correct. Save the code into a separate file, and make some dummy sprites with the Spriter program to be sure, tho.

I have a visual understanding of multidimentional arrays. Yet I'm slightly confused where the numbers 253, 260 came from.

what numbers?

Next you've explained to me the width and the height. While I could memorize the general formula behind it which isn't hard. It still makes me wonder why a little bit.

How did you decide on each sprite being 258 bytes? The closest thing I can think of here is 256 which I thought it should have been? What's with the extra two bytes per sprite? Width and Height?

That is correct. In my file, there is just one byte for the height and width, whereas in the QB format, there are two bytes for each...

Lastly in the pallates, why 63? Could it be any number or umm?

The range for mode 13h is 0..63 for each colour.