I'll try that again. I'll probe out power lines and such, I'll try and see what the reset line says and things like that. It is an old board!

The Synertek SYM-1 that I've used for several years suddenly stopped working. I think it broke when just sitting a bit ago, because a couple months ago it was working correctly, but no longer.

The symptoms:

Upon power on, the SYM-1 should beep once, then wait for the user to either press the hex ...

It's done! Monsters work now!

The build is 3.448kB in size!

I will now look into optimization and floor generation!

I think the bug is fixed! I think it was a signed char vs unsigned char problem.

The code is pushed, so now I will work on optimization! Get it down small as possible, and then try and cram in room generation!

Edit:
Nope! Still there! I may need a hand on figuring out why this is happening

UPDATE ...

Hooray! SymRogue is "complete", at 3.454kb!!!!!

The code and build has been pushed to GitHub

Please note that as of this exact posting, there is a bug where the monster you're fighting may disappear from view. I'm sure its just a code ordering problem, I'm investigating it now.

Big things happening... the game may be done tonight!

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to do a very small monster AI. I just need this feature, then its "done"!!!
https://youtu.be/rcGd2CN1V48

Sweeet, headed to bed! I got combat working and a very rudimentary status message! Only 3.232kB !!!

Now, I'll go back and look closlier at how to optimize the status message. I also have one feature to add before this is "done" as I wanted it...monster AI! I know it can't be grandiose, but I need ...

I had played around with optimization, and I got it down to around 1.5kb before the rewrite
It seems like there's always more you can do to optimize for speed, size, or both; for example, where you have
lda M0002
beq L001E
cmp #$01
beq L001F
cmp #$02
beq L0020
cmp #$03
beq L0021
bra ...

Well, after alot of silence, I am rewriting this program! It's also on git:
https://github.com/ProgrammingCube/SymRogue

I had played around with optimization, and I got it down to around 1.5kb before the rewrite, but adding in combat was proving to be such a hassle! Also, I had optimized it so ...

I'll see what I can do, experiments last night led nowhere but I was super tired XD

The *working* binary is now 1522 bytes!!!
I'm really trying to get this *finished* by this Thursday, but between changing jobs, the holidays, and finishing this current job demo, its pretty tight. I just need to get combat done and add in a status bar bit. Then, the original goal would've been hit ...

If you have multiple uart ports, I definitely have a terminal of some sort, never know when you may need it.

Interesting! I'll test the build out...

**EDIT**
Wow!! It trimmed off around 20 bytes for just 3 variables, I'll take a look at the cc65 readme for the zeropage variables...iirc you get 6 of them but perhaps a register keyword "suggests" to use it, I may do it explicitly...I know there's a way to ...

So, I need to work on the random number generator that you guys have suggested to fix, and the printf function. The combat functions are placeholders, but I anticipate them to be super simple to implement cheaply.
This is the code so far! We got a moving player, monsters, and collision detection ...