cytoTools (part 1)

[cyto]

I have a bunch of stuff floating around in various projects that I have built up over time. I thought that they may be useful to others and am in the slow process of getting them ready for "public consumption". So here is the first installment...

cytoTools-pt1.osm

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In this pack, there is a IEEE754 converter tools that lets you convert between different data representations of numbers as well as visualize and edit the bit statuses of different values. There is also a "stage 0" lookup table builder that generates the necessary asm code to build lookup tables of common curves according to user-specified values. Finally, there is an opcode reference that includes all of the opcodes supported by SM's assembler (to save you from going to the wiki).

Obviously, these are more for the "hardcore" coders around here, but they may be useful to those that are interested in diving into assembly but don't have a centralized reference for such tools. Anyway, if there is enough interest, I'll post more tools like this in the coming weeks.

Please let me know if you find any errors or have ideas to improve these tools!

-cyto

[trogluddite]

Thanks, that's great stuff!
The stage(0) code writer is proper magic - and perfectly explained too. How soon can you do one that writes upgrades for SM?
The opcode helper also will save me loads of time too - my main PC isn't networked, so I have to boot up a separate machine every time I forget what opcodes I'm allowed to use!

[martinvicanek]

Amazing stuff, cyto, definitely a keeper! Thanks for sharing!

[stw]

Amazing stuff, cyto, definitely a keeper! Thanks for sharing!

nothing more to say!!
Like to see part2,3,4,5....

[Xtinct]

Wow

[pall]

It is a pleasure to see such schematics.
Thanks cyto!

[cyto]

Thanks for the positive feedback, guys! I'm happy that these will be useful to others and will definitely get to "cleaning up" some entries for "part 2".

I forgot to give due credit to martinvicanek for the math that the rational mapper code is based on. I find myself using that math (or a derivation of it) in almost every project I work on to get things scaled perfectly. So, major props go to him!

How soon can you do one that writes upgrades for SM?

Ha! if only...

-cyto

[DigitalWhiteByte]

new sap cyto

[trogluddite]

I forgot to give due credit to martinvicanek for the math

Thanks to Martin too.
i think I learned more maths from you two, here on the forum, than my 'A' level maths teacher ever managed to teach me!

[bootsy]

great stuff!

thanx for sharing,
bootsy

[martinvicanek]

i think I learned more maths from you two, here on the forum, than my 'A' level maths teacher ever managed to teach me!

Thanks, Trog. The problem is at school we never thought that the stuff we were supposed to learn could actually be useful some day.