Sprite FPP
The basic theory behind a Sprite FPP is quite simple: Change sprite-pointer value every rasterline. Though there are a few things to prepare before it works in reality.
First we want to use a bigger graphics area than one sprite. With a normal $d017-stretcher we can make the sprites arbitrary high, and at the same time we only use one line of the sprite for graphics. If we then place our 8 sprites beside eachother, increasing the y-position by 1 for each sprite, then our FPP will display different graphics for each sprite. We have a 192 pixels wide sprite-layer with any desired height.
Note that all sprite-pointers have to be set each line for the FPP to work as we wish. Since they all use different lines of the sprite, the same value can be set to all sprite pointers. Using all 8 sprites, there will be 44 cycles availible each line for you to do this, and the $d017-stretching. Unrolled code is about the only option. There is no time for badlines here, so mostly you will need to use the $d011 idle-mode, which requires opening the upper/lower borders.
In the following code example i have kept it simple by using a loop for the FPP. Thus not all 8 sprites are being updated, only 6, so i save some cycles there to be able to loop the code. “FppCalc” is just a st0pid routine that generates some values to the FPP-table. Here you can do the real beauty of the effect by putting some more effort to it :).
*= $0900 sei lda #$ff ; Enable sprites sta $d015 ldx #14 ; Set some sprite x-positions sec lda #$f0 sta $d000,x sbc #$18 dex dex bpl *-7 ldx #14 ; Set some sprite y-positions clc lda #$40 sta $d001,x adc #1 dex dex bpl *-7 lda #$bd ; Set idle-pattern sta $3fff loop1 lda #$f9 ; Remove upper/lower border cmp $d012 bne *-3 lda #0 sta $d011 bit $d011 bpl *-3 lda #8 ; Set $d011 to idle mode -> no badlines sta $d011 jsr FppCalc ; Make beautiful FPP. lda #$48 ; Wait for sprite y-position cmp $d012 bne *-3 ldx #5 ; Wait a few cycles to make the d017-stretch work.. dex ; ..and all sprite pointers update on the same line. bne *-1 nop ldx #0 loop2 dec $d017 ; Do $d017-stretching as we have learned lda FppTab,x ; Get value from table.. sta $07f8 ; ..and store to all sprite pointers sta $07f9 sta $07fa sta $07fb sta $07fc sta $07fd ; Note: here we should store to $07fe and $07ff also, ; but there are not enough cycles in this loop (44 cycles). ; To make FPP on all sprites, unroll the loop. inc $d017 ; Set back $d017 inx bpl loop2 jmp loop1 FppCalc lda #0 ; Increase adding value inc *-1 sta AddVal clc lda #0 ; Increase starting value adc #3 sta *-3 sta Value ldy #0 FC_1 clc ; Calculate some obscure values to the FppTable lda AddVal adc #3 sta AddVal bpl *+4 eor #$ff lsr lsr lsr lsr lsr clc adc Value sta Value sta FppTab,y iny bpl FC_1 rts AddVal .byte 0 Value .byte 0 .align $100 ; Align the table to a new page, this way lda FppTab,x always takes 4 cycles. FppTab .dsb 256 ; Reserve 256 bytes for the table