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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:09:47 -0400
From: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: dos-discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [DOS-DISCUSS] QBasic ascii Animation?

The locate command would have been your friend there.  You'd have to
compensate for the new line by subtracting 1 and you'd do something like
print i; if memory serves.



On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, ANDY wrote:

> Hi lists, sorry for cross-posts,
>
>  I was just wondering___
>
>  in the late '80's (I rode my 10-speed bike) to a computer programming job
> interview... the interview consisted of a "test"...
>
>  the "test" was/I was asked  to write a BASIC program using a, it seemed,
> networked, CLI monitor/computer etc.
>
>  I was asked to write a BASIC program that would draw a rectangle on
> the monitor screen with the asterik character "*", then sequentially
> draw smaller rectangles within the first...
>
>  like this:
>
>             ********************
>              ***************** *
>              * ************* * *
>              * * *********** * *
>              * * * <-* * * * * *
>              * * *********** * *
>              * *************** *
>              *******************
>
>       I found this task immpossible recently using QBasic
>
>       first I wrote two simple loops using two PRINT statements, on
> paper, thinking that the PRINT command, or I, could simply PRINT(X,Y);"*"
> on/to sequential or any given set of x,y coordinates at any time...
>
>        little did I realize that everytime PRINT is invoked it prints
> to/on a new/next line...
>
>        and to meet such an above program specification, I guess one must
> know/have known? something about animation and computer animation,
> writing/printing such asteriks to individual *frames*, then sequentially
> with appropriate pauses putting/assembling all of them together so that
> the above animation would/will appear on the/a blank cli computer screen
>
>  my question is: can this be done using CLI Basic?? I've come to a
> conclusion that it cannot... am I correct in this conclusion?
>
>  how far did human-kind get in such CLI ascii animation projects? using
> BASIC??
>
>  I mean: could this be done/have been done using an array or arrays?,
> somehow creating and storing such "screen "frames"", then or
> simultaneously resassembling them, in or using array memory?
>
>  just curious___
>
>  Andy
>

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