Retrospect Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Hello fellow 9900 obsessive people. Right - straight to the point - what have I done wrong here ? ..... I can't think why this doesn't work, and as far as I know, the XB256 manual isn't telling my why I'm wrong either - but i AM wrong ... somehow! My boat won't CHAR properly, it keeps wanting to be a group of letters. ! GET INTO SCREEN 2 MODE 10 CALL LINK("SCRN2")::CALL MAGNIFY(3) ! ASSIGN SOME CHARS 20 CALL LINK("CHAR2",104,"00000FFFFFFFFFFF") 30 CALL LINK("CHAR2",105,"000000C1FFFFFFFF") 40 CALL LINK("CHAR2",106,"00000081C7FFFFFF") 45 CALL LINK("CHAR2",107,"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF") 46 CALL LINK("CHAR2",112,"0000000606043F7FFFFF7F0000000000000000406030FFFFFCF8E00000000000") ! SET THE SCREEN AND CHAR COLOURS 50 CALL LINK("COLOR2",10,5,1)::CALL LINK("SCREEN",15) ! PLACE THE MAIN WATER CHARS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN 70 CALL HCHAR(21,1,107,96) ! PLACE RANDOM WAVE CHARS AT POSITION 20 80 FOR L=1 TO 32:=INT(3*RND)+1:=X+103::CALL HCHAR(20,L,X)::NEXT L ! SET MY SPRITE (THIS IS WHERE IT GOES WRONG) 81 CALL SPRITE(#1,112,16,140,20) ! ASSIGN LINES 20 TO 24 AS A WINDOW 90 CALL LINK("WINDOW",20,1,24,32) ! SCROLL THE ASSIGNED WINDOW 100 CALL LINK("SCRLLF",1) ! KEEP SCROLLING THE ASSIGNED WINDOW 110 GOTO 100 BOAT.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Sprites are defined using the normal characters in XB. i.e. the SCREEN1 characters. So to define your sprite you should CALL CHAR(112,""0000000606043F7FF......") and then it should work as expected. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Sprites are defined using the normal characters in XB. i.e. the SCREEN1 characters. So to define your sprite you should CALL CHAR(112,""0000000606043F7FF......") and then it should work as expected. Excellent ... thankyou Senior_Falcon, I will do that. Assign as I would standard XB for sprites. I'll have that boat sailing in no time. I will keep posting to this thread with more experiments, playing around, and bits n bats .... it's a fantastic program, XB256. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Hello .... Horse racing project using XB256 and the 256 compiler. Honestly, I've done this type of thing (scrolling a screen) both ways now - the way I did it in standard XB, and the way it's done in XB256 .... .and I can tell ya , 256 makes it soooo much easier. Thankyou Harry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywakqUaNwQ&feature=youtu.be 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Nice start on the game. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 You just made my day! Nice work!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 reminded me of this fun little game.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Very cool, man! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 (edited) I've had a spare hour to work on the project .... I've moved the horses up 20 pixels, rewritten the graphics for the grass to make it appear less 'in form' and more random, and now there is a display of the leading horse's name , which I think may be slowing the scrolling down by a fraction. Still, it's fun to have. More updates on this later. Thanks everyone for the feedback. It encourages me to go further. For some reason my old video ended up on the end of the new one. Try the program on Classic99 here ... its not as fuzzy as the video ... >>> PROTOTYPE.zip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXzRXS2MDU&feature=youtu.be Edited April 6, 2015 by Retrospect 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Nicely done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 That is a nice addition to the program. One thing that could be improved is to only print "In the lead" one time and then just print the name of the horse. It is a little distracting to see "In the lead" flashing. If you pad the horse's name with trailing spaces so they are all the same length then you don't have to clear the line when you print the name. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 True - that's been done. I'm having fun doing the title screen graphics at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 Might use this one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Man, loving this project!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Man, loving this project!! Thanks Owen I'm enjoying doing it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Allowed myself to get side-tracked tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_PhuyZM9M&feature=youtu.be 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Ridiculous. love it... I want that as ny PC screensaver... Drive ny wife insane. LOL!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) Ridiculous. love it... I want that as ny PC screensaver... Drive ny wife insane. LOL!!! hehe .... here ya go dude. I think as a windows movie file it should be do-able screenscroll.zip and here's the classic99 file if you wanna play with that too COLORBARS.zip Edited April 7, 2015 by Retrospect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Made another little demo here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77AwL2muACc&feature=youtu.be 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 The racing game is having a good re-write right now. I did the old trick of putting bits of code at random spots ... I only knew what everything did for about 48 hours and after a break of more than 16 hours I was suddenly confused looking at the mess of spaghetti everywhere..... There's going to be six horses racing on screen .... sprites at magnify 3 because I want a little shadow under each horse, the test I did before I screwed up the code looked good enough to show, but I don't want to stack the thread with showboating videos every time I triumph.... The "leading horse" thing will be more advanced, and will show (hopefully) all the horses in order of position during the race.... I'm being very optimistic there..... Right ... so ... on with it, from scratch .... I'll have a title screen with attract mode to begin with. With an attempt to take advantage of the fact that we have 28 sets of chars (?!) which is going to be fun to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 With an attempt to take advantage of the fact that we have 28 sets of chars (?!) which is going to be fun to play with. There are 32 sets of characters (256 total characters) to play with! Not to mention there are another 112 characters to use for sprites. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 (edited) There are 32 sets of characters (256 total characters) to play with! Not to mention there are another 112 characters to use for sprites. Excellent, better than I thought! .... I've got an attract mode title screen just about ready to show. No sound yet, but I will do all that last. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGC9pNh1EU&feature=youtu.be The youtube clip looks HORRID !!! .... So I provided the FIAD file for Classic99 / CF7 users, use Extended Basic to load it (it doesnt need 256 to run) Also to note: the finished product will draw the racing track faster ..... I got impatient and botched it in somewhat hapazardly. Basically it has a RND of 4 numbers, and adds the character number for graphics to it, for example GR=GR+159 or whatever, is why it's sloooow. The character set is too high up for me to PRINT as a CALL LINK("DISPLY", xxxx) ATTRACT2.zip Edited April 10, 2015 by Retrospect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 The skyline looks like Activision to me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 The skyline looks like Activision to me! Yeah, you are right, it does somewhat look reminiscent of Activision ..... I might throw in a couple of clouds, I could use the horses shadows in white and set them in automotion very slowly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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