Lines Demo 2 (CPC Basic)

[Bytebreaker]

Hello there,


under normal circumstances I would not have been able to come up with the next release so quickly.
But you guys helped me within minutes and hours after I posted a question. So I just had to do what you told me instead of reading, trying, failing and cursing another 1001 times.


Please enjoy my lines demo 2.


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Thanks Fessor for color cyling and screen ram grabbing help, Morri for being an impressive role model for Basic coders and all others who helped with clever advice. I already mentioned you in the greetings part. :-)


The next release will take longer, I will read about hardware, z80, sprites and so on. While I learn, I motivate myself by watching what you cool CPC dudes do on the machines Sir Alan Sugar gave us as his heritage.


I don't want to protect my sourcecode since we should all profit from one another.

[Kris]

Nice basic visual effects !

[alex76gr]

That was beautiful!
Thank you!

[Fessor]

Yeah, its impressive what can be done in and with Basic. Even some commercial Games are programmed in Basic with some MC-Extensions.
Hanse (100% Basic), Radzone (Basic with MC), Pirates(!) (Basic with MC) to name a few.

[Bytebreaker]

Pirates?!?! Jeez I didn't know that.
I believe that all kind of round-based games should work fine in Basic.
Games that work real-time can get timing problems/slowdowns.

[roudoudou]

This is a nice usage of the fill command for the first effect!


Next time, try to use mode 0 for color cycling effect in basic


Take a look at my former demo basic demo 2, there is a lot of tricks in it!


starfield in color cycling mode 0
moving big blocks in mode 1 refreshing only differences
it's a little slow but visual is ok


roudoudou basic 2 &copy flower corp. (1999)

[Bytebreaker]

Thanks roudoudou,


I know your demos already and think you really know how to treat an Amstrad machine.