I vaguely recall it should be possible to draw VDU characters with exclusive-OR? Then you can erase a drawing simply by drawing itself over itself. So then just draw the old position once to erase, draw the snowman on the new position. Repeat for each snowman.
Your alteration made it MUCH MUCH better. Well done for lasting 2 minutes 😂 As there is a slight flicker, (in comparison), due to technical constraints, it's baffling why you'd go and program one in 😂 May I ask 1 question please. When you do a type-in program how do you save it so you can load it up and use it in future? (I am trying to get Discord set up again but I'm having a problem due to using my phone number for an account before 😕) Thank you very much Colin 🙂
Thank you! To be fair to Martin Hollis, I think he just chose a particular method and back in 1984 the flashing may not have been so unusual. The good thing is, there are other options - which I hope to demonstrate in Part 2, coming soon! As for type-ins - I usually save them to .bas files and paste them into BeebEm. Alternatively, if I do the type-in on my Beeb, I save it to a disc image on my Gotek and then copy that over to my PC.
@ColinHoad Thanks for your reply Colin. The closest I have to a BBBC Micro is the BeebEm Emulator. I was hoping to type in a listing and save it as a file that could be run on it (I'm very novice). Thanks Colin 🙂👍🏻
So, with BeebEm, you can load a program (load, but not run) and then select Edit>Copy which triggers a LIST command but it also copies the entire output to the clipboard - which you can then paste into your editor of choice. Once completed, you can Edit>Paste back into BeebEm and then save to a disc image 😀
This is great what you have done here - I put up a video of the game last christmas but could never summon the courage to tackle it.
Thank you very much, that's kind of you! 😀
Nice - looking forward to part 2.
Thank you - hoping to get part two out sometime tomorrow, fingers crossed 🤞
I vaguely recall it should be possible to draw VDU characters with exclusive-OR? Then you can erase a drawing simply by drawing itself over itself. So then just draw the old position once to erase, draw the snowman on the new position. Repeat for each snowman.
In part two I'll explain exactly how I did it - it's similar but not quite the same, although it achieves much the same effect 👍
Definitely looks better!
Thanks a lot! 😀
Your alteration made it MUCH MUCH better. Well done for lasting 2 minutes 😂
As there is a slight flicker, (in comparison), due to technical constraints, it's baffling why you'd go and program one in 😂
May I ask 1 question please. When you do a type-in program how do you save it so you can load it up and use it in future?
(I am trying to get Discord set up again but I'm having a problem due to using my phone number for an account before 😕)
Thank you very much Colin 🙂
Thank you! To be fair to Martin Hollis, I think he just chose a particular method and back in 1984 the flashing may not have been so unusual. The good thing is, there are other options - which I hope to demonstrate in Part 2, coming soon! As for type-ins - I usually save them to .bas files and paste them into BeebEm. Alternatively, if I do the type-in on my Beeb, I save it to a disc image on my Gotek and then copy that over to my PC.
@ColinHoad Thanks for your reply Colin. The closest I have to a BBBC Micro is the BeebEm Emulator. I was hoping to type in a listing and save it as a file that could be run on it (I'm very novice). Thanks Colin 🙂👍🏻
Superb work, sir!
Thank you very much! You're always an inspiration when it comes to type-in enhancements 😄
Getting waves of nostalgia from my Acorn Electron days.
How did you export the source to a document and then import it back into the emulator?
So, with BeebEm, you can load a program (load, but not run) and then select Edit>Copy which triggers a LIST command but it also copies the entire output to the clipboard - which you can then paste into your editor of choice. Once completed, you can Edit>Paste back into BeebEm and then save to a disc image 😀
Thanks Colin :)
OK that's really clever 😅.
Thanks! It took a bit of unravelling but I got there in the end... part two will explain exactly how 👍