Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
On Fri, March 6, 2009 1:42 pm, Oliver Fromme wrote:
In theory, the Forth code could leave the graphics screen
enabled. It's just a matter of removing one command from
beastie.4th. Then splash(4) should follow on seamlessly,
if it's configured to display the same image, which is
a decision to be made by the user, of course.
I haven't tried to do that myself, though.
I read that and immediately thought "two-frame boot animation!". It could
be very entertaining.
Given how little code is needed to X-Y 'drift' a small D.Mon around on a
black background, two panes should be enough to make a DragonFly appear
to move its wings..
. or perhaps the creative could even 'cluster' a mating pair...
and if we ever import ZFS, watch the eggs hatch....
;-)
Bill