Hi! Nice video! Have you considered using the 8 custom chars offered by the LCD controller? With these you can show at least 2 simultaneous "hi definition" balls, each using a 2 by 2 characters grid as render canvas. Also you can render up to 8 indipendent balls simultaneously if you make them only 1x1 pixel each. Greetings from Italy!
Yes. That was my intention to use the custom characters to represent the particle in pixel space. But I had time constraints to get the video out. It will be a good update for the code.
Some old fashioned LCD displays are just to low in resolution to express the subtilty of a bouncing ball. Maybe it would be better if every ball had two or more stages, once it is in the centre of the place where the character is shown, then only half the character is shown, but on the position besides it, the other half of that ball. In this way the movement is more gently. Now it is hopping from one position to another. Don't look at me, I can't do it myself. It is like I am from Barcelona when it comes to sinus and cosine, tangent and arctangent, mathematics are simply not my strongest point, unfortunately I missed that day in school.
Glad to have you on our aboard 🥂
Fun video. I love seeing people still making use of tech from the golden age of microprocessors, LOL.
Hi! Nice video!
Have you considered using the 8 custom chars offered by the LCD controller?
With these you can show at least 2 simultaneous "hi definition" balls, each using a 2 by 2 characters grid as render canvas.
Also you can render up to 8 indipendent balls simultaneously if you make them only 1x1 pixel each.
Greetings from Italy!
Yes. That was my intention to use the custom characters to represent the particle in pixel space. But I had time constraints to get the video out. It will be a good update for the code.
Geez man, your Code-Fu is getting legendary, bro.
Nice, another interesting Z80 project
Very nice video! I don't have a TEC-1F, but maybe I can hook a display up my TEC-1D sometime!
LCDs work perfectly well on a 1D. Just wire it up the same way.
Some old fashioned LCD displays are just to low in resolution to express the subtilty of a bouncing ball. Maybe it would be better if every ball had two or more stages, once it is in the centre of the place where the character is shown, then only half the character is shown, but on the position besides it, the other half of that ball. In this way the movement is more gently. Now it is hopping from one position to another.
Don't look at me, I can't do it myself. It is like I am from Barcelona when it comes to sinus and cosine, tangent and arctangent, mathematics are simply not my strongest point, unfortunately I missed that day in school.