Christmas Cards 2017
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:24 pm
Time of the year again, guys (and any gals). I thought we had quite some fun last year. It started off with some nice animated Christmas cards and ended up with a full-blown video program!
Hardly a Christmas card, but I thought Id kick off with this little "screen saver" that demos the much under-used ALPHA_BLEND facility. SMSQ/E with 8 or 16 bit colour only, though, and preferably something more than 512x256 screen real estate. That means a Qx0 or Aurora system. No hardship, however, if you dont have one of those, as anyone here with a half decent PC of some flavour has access to the free QPC2 and SMSQmulator emulators! Happy progging!
Should be compatible with CueDark
Hardly a Christmas card, but I thought Id kick off with this little "screen saver" that demos the much under-used ALPHA_BLEND facility. SMSQ/E with 8 or 16 bit colour only, though, and preferably something more than 512x256 screen real estate. That means a Qx0 or Aurora system. No hardship, however, if you dont have one of those, as anyone here with a half decent PC of some flavour has access to the free QPC2 and SMSQmulator emulators! Happy progging!
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10 rem Able 8, pjw, November 28th 2017
11 :
12 bsz% = 80: rem Block size
13 time% = 5: rem Time out
14 :
15 ch% = FOPEN("con_")
16 :
17 xl% = SCR_XLIM(#ch%) - bsz%
18 yl% = SCR_YLIM(#ch%) - bsz%
19 :
20 WINDOW#ch%, SCR_XLIM(#ch%), SCR_YLIM(#ch%), 0, 0
21 :
22 REPeat lp
23 x = RND(0 TO 255): ALPHA_BLEND#ch%; x
24 BLOCK#ch%; bsz%, bsz%, RND(0 TO xl%), RND(0 TO yl%), RND(0 TO 7)
25 IF CODE(INKEY$(#ch%; time%)) = 27: EXIT lp
26 END REPeat lp
27 CLOSE#ch%
28 QUIT
29 :
I rather hope youre all beavering away at 