LOL!
Same here; couldn't resist tightening it up a bit myself but will happily use
your version.
Also a lot of opportunity to combine commands on one line to also save space
and a little time.
But it's a pretty neat piece of work all the same, and actually not as slow as
one might expect.
m
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Pettit
To: Model 100 Discussion
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [M100] Custom characters
Hi George,
One thing I did when I was adding AsciiPixels was a tiny bit of code
optimization (perhaps I shouldn't have?):
1. I noticed you had duplicated code for printing "You Lose" and "You Win".
I combined these into a single routine with "Win" or "Lose" passed as a string.
Also I noticed you use % variables quite a bit.
2. I changed all of these to DEFINT so they are integer by default and
removed all of the '%' characters. This both saves space and a tiny bit of
time as the BASIC parser has fewer characters to intrepret.
3. There were a few places where you check for "Y" and on the next line
check for "y" (same with "N" and "n"). I combined these like:
14140 IF A$="Y" OR A$="y" THEN 14200
4. I removed all occurances of "THEN GOTO line_no" to simply "THEN
line_no". The GOTO is assumed in this case.
Ken
On 4/23/17 2:34 PM, George Rimakis wrote:
Hi Ken,
I'm not making any more change. Feel free to reach out to me directly. I'd
like to integrate this fully with my own graphics if I can.
~George
On Apr 23, 2017, at 3:49 PM, Ken Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:
George,
Are you still making major changes to Test Sweeper? I had a few minutes
on my hands this morning and integrated my AsciiPix routines into the latest
copy of TSWEEP.DO that I had. See attached photos of it running in VirtualT.
I haven't tried this on a real M100 yet, but I think it should work.
If you are interested, I could give you a quick explanation of how I did
this. Oh, and the BASIC code detects if ASCPIX is present and defaults back to
the original if not.
Ken
On 4/22/17 8:33 PM, George Rimakis wrote:
Hi John,
You knew exactly what I was getting at.
I guess it's possible to use PSET and PRESET to draw mines. Although an
รณ might be just as well.
My girlfriend was rather unimpressed with Text Sweeper due to "not real
flags and mines".
~George
On Apr 22, 2017, at 10:31 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 6:58 PM George Rimakis <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey guys,
Is there any way to do custom characters in a BASIC program?
~George
Not that I know of. I've seen special display software like View80
but that's in machine language.
I did notice there's an o with a tick over it. Might make a good bomb
for text sweeper.
-- John.
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