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anduril66 Anduril is the Flame of the West!
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 10:38:03 am Post subject: |
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Call this program from your basic program:
:AsmPrgm
:EF7045C9
It should turn the run indicator off on an 83+. |
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Justin W. Shattered Silence
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 01:26:10 pm Post subject: |
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yeah you can use the rom call bcall(_runIndicOff) or you can change the run indicator flag. The rom call take one less byte though. |
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Adm.Wiggin aka Tianon
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 01:48:07 pm Post subject: |
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well, the rom call may take one less byte, but it is slower... so, what do u want, speed, or size?  |
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Justin W. Shattered Silence
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 02:24:03 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly for an instruction so small you couldn't even tell the difference in the speed of execution. So in this case you would go with Size. Other instructions of course you would go for speed, specificly in gameplay. Generally shutting off the run indicator is only done once in an entire program and therefore it is unnecessary to use the larger instruction. |
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Adm.Wiggin aka Tianon
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 02:30:42 pm Post subject: |
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lol, ya, but, if in asm u want to change if the run indicator looks like this :
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instead of :
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then u have to use the flags... i found this out with my recent endevor, WALLSxp... |
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NETWizz Byte by bit
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 04:14:53 pm Post subject: |
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I do not even like the run indicator in programs, so when I write an asm program, I do not turn it on. |
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Adm.Wiggin aka Tianon
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 06:50:56 pm Post subject: |
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me too, unless i want a special run indicator for something extra special, like a title screen with 'press any key...' at the bottom... |
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Justin W. Shattered Silence
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 08:30:30 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I also prefer not to have the run indicator active in asm programs. It takes away my ability to use the 64th row and 96th column of pixels  |
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Adm.Wiggin aka Tianon
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Posted: 04 Jun 2003 11:31:49 pm Post subject: |
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ya, those are pretty fun to use, it makes basic proggers jelous they cant do last row and column! |
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Arcane Wizard `semi-hippie`
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Posted: 05 Jun 2003 04:30:31 am Post subject: |
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And why would you want to use the 64th row and the 96th collumn ?
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Justin W. Shattered Silence
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Posted: 05 Jun 2003 08:41:18 am Post subject: |
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Simply because you have more complete graphics without that extra row and column sitting there completely white. It looks a little ugly to have a almost completely black pic and have a row and column that can never be turned black in Basic. |
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NETWizz Byte by bit
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Posted: 05 Jun 2003 04:53:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, the question should not be why use them, but why not use the row and colum. |
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Arcane Wizard `semi-hippie`
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Posted: 06 Jun 2003 07:11:32 am Post subject: |
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Because you can't in basic :P
I was just wondering because I have never needed to use them. |
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yugniht
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Posted: 06 Jun 2003 01:52:42 pm Post subject: |
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If you're making a pic to use in your basic prog, you can use a windows program, I forgot the name but you make the pic on the computer and you can use every pixel, column, and row.
Here's another trick I don't think was posted or documented, but it might be: Text(Y,X,"TEXT","TEXT","TEXT
You can just put a comma between them instead of using three Text( and you can do more or less than three, to mayble clear some things up for all those literal people out there
EDIT: The file name for that windows prog is 83iview95.zip and you can download it here. It works for 73,82, and 83 pics. Obviously, since it'll make a pic for the 83, it'll work for the 83+, in case you were wondering.
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yugniht
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Posted: 06 Jun 2003 08:40:40 pm Post subject: |
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Another trick: when on the graph screen you can press 2nd then press the left or right arrow key and the cursor will jump 5 pixels to the left or right, depending on what you pressed. |
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NETWizz Byte by bit
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Posted: 07 Jun 2003 02:07:26 am Post subject: |
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Also, if you press alpha followed by up or down, you will scroll a whole page of program code. |
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62 52 53 53 Formerly known as 62 52 53 53
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Posted: 07 Jun 2003 07:23:47 am Post subject: |
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2nd right will take you to the end of your current line, 2nd left will take you to the beginning of that line. |
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gorchy
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Posted: 07 Jun 2003 07:34:21 am Post subject: |
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What´s the sense of Text(x,y,"text","text") ?
It only displays "texttext" at x,y and needs more space |
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62 52 53 53 Formerly known as 62 52 53 53
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Posted: 07 Jun 2003 07:45:41 am Post subject: |
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it is useful when using variables, such as strings and numbers. |
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yugniht
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Posted: 07 Jun 2003 12:04:31 pm Post subject: |
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gorchy wrote: What´s the sense of Text(x,y,"text","text") ?
It only displays "texttext" at x,y and needs more space
I've used it for showing fractions or percents, and I would use it like: Text(Y,X,A,"/",B
That's just one example, though |
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