SplitBit-Emulator/Source/Emulator/pad.c

// pad.c
// Game controllers for the Voyager.
// Written by Anachronaut

#include "pad.h"
#include "video.h"

// What each pad is holding, and where each one gets it from.
static uint8_t held[PAD_COUNT];
static FILE *recorded[PAD_COUNT];
static uint8_t live[PAD_COUNT];
static int connected[PAD_COUNT];
static FILE *recording[PAD_COUNT];

// ---- The frame the recordings advance on ----
//
// The screen's frame, and it is the same one on purpose: a game reads its pad once a frame
// because that is when it draws, so a byte a frame is a byte a poll for anything written the
// ordinary way - without making it a byte a READ, which would answer a game that asked twice
// differently from one that asked once.
//
// On the machine's clock, so a recording plays back the same over the same cycles however
// fast the host ran.
static unsigned long lastFrame;
static int started;

void padReset(void) {
    for (int n = 0; n < PAD_COUNT; n++) {
        held[n] = 0;
        live[n] = 0;
        connected[n] = 0;
        // The files are NOT closed or forgotten. They were named on the command line and
        // outlive a reset, the same as a disk image does: a machine that restarted itself
        // and lost its controllers would be a strange thing to debug.
    }
    lastFrame = 0;
    started = 0;
}

// What the device would report for this pad, which is what a recording has to hold: a
// recording of a playback that wrote the LIVE state would be a file of noughts.
static uint8_t effective(int which) {
    return (recorded[which] != NULL) ? held[which] : live[which];
}

void padRecordTo(int which, FILE *file) {
    if (which < 0 || which >= PAD_COUNT) {
        return;
    }
    recording[which] = file;
}

void padFromFile(int which, FILE *file) {
    if (which < 0 || which >= PAD_COUNT) {
        return;
    }
    recorded[which] = file;
}

void padSet(int which, int isConnected, uint8_t heldNow) {
    if (which < 0 || which >= PAD_COUNT) {
        return;
    }
    connected[which] = isConnected;
    live[which] = heldNow;
}

void padTick(unsigned long now) {
    // The first tick sets the clock rather than counting a frame from nought, or a machine
    // that started late would take a run of bytes all at once.
    if (!started) {
        lastFrame = now;
        started = 1;
    }
    while (now - lastFrame >= VIDEO_FRAME_CYCLES) {
        lastFrame += VIDEO_FRAME_CYCLES;
        for (int n = 0; n < PAD_COUNT; n++) {
            if (recorded[n] == NULL) {
                continue;
            }
            const int byte = fgetc(recorded[n]);
            // ---- The end of a recording is nothing held ----
            //
            // Not a pad that vanishes and not the last frame repeating for ever. A recording
            // that ran out and left a direction pressed would send whatever it was driving
            // off the edge of the world long after the test meant to stop.
            held[n] = (byte == EOF) ? 0 : (uint8_t)byte;
        }
        // ---- And a byte written for every frame that went by ----
        //
        // Inside the loop rather than after it, so a machine that jumped several frames at
        // once still writes one byte for each of them. A recording is a TIMELINE, and one
        // that skipped the frames nobody was looking at would play back faster than it was
        // flown.
        //
        // Flushed as it goes, because a recording is usually stopped by whoever is playing
        // rather than by the program ending, and a demo lost to a buffer would be a demo
        // flown twice.
        for (int n = 0; n < PAD_COUNT; n++) {
            if (recording[n] != NULL) {
                fputc(effective(n), recording[n]);
                fflush(recording[n]);
            }
        }
    }
}

uint8_t padRead(uint8_t port) {
    if (port == PAD_PRESENT) {
        uint8_t there = 0;
        for (int n = 0; n < PAD_COUNT; n++) {
            // A recording is a pad, and so is anything the front end says is plugged in.
            // Counting only the recordings meant this said nought on the one machine that
            // has real controllers, which is the only machine where the answer matters.
            if (recorded[n] != NULL || connected[n]) {
                there |= (uint8_t)(1u << n);
            }
        }
        return there;
    }
    const int which = port - PORT_PAD;
    if (which < 0 || which >= PAD_COUNT) {
        // Everything else in the block is reserved and reads as nothing, which is what a
        // port block being kept for later should do.
        return 0;
    }
    // A recording wins over a live pad, so a test is not at the mercy of whatever somebody
    // is leaning on while it runs.
    return effective(which);
}