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General Category => Programming => Topic started by: ComSoft6128 on 14:47, 28 March 22

Title: Locomotive BASIC - Condensed Graphical Text Demo by Ross Simpson (O
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 14:47, 28 March 22
Australian BASIC demo from 2015.
The program is Listed at end of video.

Info (from CPCPOWER):
"A BASIC approach for squeezing more text across the screen
I have redefined characters 230 to 255 for these characters "A" to "Z"

Display Text
Entry Conditions :
x% = X coordinate
y% = Y coordinate
mo% = value relating to screen mode, appropriate values are 1 for mode 2, 2 for mode 1 & 4 for mode 0
a$ = character string to display, for this program char set 230 to 255 are used to appropriately display capitals "A" to "Z".



Links:
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=12677
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=staff&lenom=Ross%20SIMPSON
https://cpcrulez.fr/auteur-ross_simpson.htm

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that  the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor 

has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

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