ASMFIRE.ASM

; Ever since I saw TINYFIRE.ASM by Rex Deathstar I desired
; to write a fire routine which is not only small but fast
; and in full color as well.
;
; Well, here it is:
; - 192 shades of red and yellow set at run-time
; - 160 by 100 resolution for higher speed
; - limited screen area based at the bottom of the screen
; - NO Memory variables used
; - LESS THAN 200 bytes! (186 in July 1997)
;
; Of course there is room for improvement, but I didn't want to
; make this my live's work either ;)
; The routine is this big because the low resolution drawing
; (always four pixels at a time) makes it neccesary to go by X and
; Y coordinates rather then the usuall offset into video mem.
;
; by KILLROY 1997
;
; email: csitc@mail.link.net.mt


.MODEL TINY
.386

.CODE
.STARTUP         ;No idea what this does, I just saw it in many examples
  org 100h       ;(I never really "learned" asm)
  mov al,13h
  int 10h
  push 0a000h
  pop ds         ;no es: segment overrides (one byte each!)

  mov cl,63
  mov dx,3c8h
SetPal1:        ;Colors 0 to 63
  mov al,cl
  out dx,al
  inc dx
  out dx,al
  xor al,al
  out dx,al
  out dx,al
  dec dx
  dec cx
  jge SetPal1
  mov bl,63
SetPal2:        ;Colors 64 to 127
  mov al,bl
  add al,64
  out dx,al
  inc dx
  mov al,63
  out dx,al
  mov al,bl
  out dx,al
  xor al,al
  out dx,al
  dec dx
  dec bx
  jge SetPal2
  mov cl,63
SetPal3:        ;Colors 128 to 191
  mov al,cl
  add al,128
  out dx,al
  inc dx
  mov al,63
  out dx,al
  out dx,al
  mov al,cl
  out dx,al
  dec dx
  dec cl      ;I don't know where, but ch gets destroyed (so does bh in SetPal2)
  jge SetPal3

MainLoop:
  mov cl,240
loop0:        ;My random number generator
  mov ax,bx   ;Quite big, since I just took my Pascal one
  rol ax,3    ;instead of writing a new one
  sub ax,7
  xor ax,di
  mov bx,di
  mov di,ax
  and ax,127
  mov dx,ax
  shl dx,1
  mov si,62368
  sub si,dx
  mov al,192
  mov [si],al
  dec cx
  jnz loop0
  push bx
  mov si,19200
  mov bx,69
Yloop:        ;Do lines (lines 30 to 99)
  add si,32
  mov cl,128
Xloop:        ;Do columns (columns 32 to 287)
  xor ah,ah
  xor dh,dh
  lodsb
  mov dl,[si-3]
  inc si
  add dx,ax
  mov al,[si]
  add dx,ax
  mov al,[si+638]
  add dx,ax
  shr dx,2
  cmp dx,2
  jl NoDec
  dec dx
  dec dx
NoDec:
  mov dh,dl
  mov [si-642],dx
  mov [si-322],dx
  dec cx
  jnz Xloop
  add si,32
  add si,320
  dec bx
  jnz Yloop
  mov bx,160
  pop bx
  mov ah,1    ;Originally I stored the value from port 60h and
  int 016h    ;compared it, but that's bigger
  jz MainLoop
  mov ax,3
  int 010h
  ret         ;Theoretically this messes up the stack
End           ;(poping the flags). What can I say? It works...