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Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 12:48 pm
by Andrew
In SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online there are some commands related to Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit
The commands in this toolkit are:
DRAW
PLOT
REFRESH
SCLR
SCRBASE

Where can I find the toolkit? I could not find it on DIlwyn's site

Re: Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 1:50 pm
by tofro
Andrew wrote:In SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online there are some commands related to Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit
The commands in this toolkit are:
DRAW
PLOT
REFRESH
SCLR
SCRBASE

Where can I find the toolkit? I could not find it on DIlwyn's site
Don't know where that is - But the DIY Toolkit's Section G has fast screen plot and line commands that might serve you just as well.

Re: Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 2:16 pm
by Andrew
tofro wrote:Don't know where that is - But the DIY Toolkit's Section G has fast screen plot and line commands that might serve you just as well.
Yes and No
Yes - as long as you want to PLOT on the visible screen.
But the Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit PLOT and DRAW commands are relative to the address defined/redefined with SCRBASE and allow background drawing.

Re: Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 7:17 am
by RWAP
Try my PD Toolkit disks - attached

It should be in there somewhere!

Re: Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 10:17 am
by Andrew
RWAP wrote:Try my PD Toolkit disks - attached

It should be in there somewhere!
Thank you Rich.
It seems that it's not on the disks.

Re: Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 8:35 pm
by RWAP
In that case, I assume that this is one of the original toolkit descriptions added to the Reference Manual by the original German authors before I got involved....

I didn't have every toolkit which they had...

Re: Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 10:02 pm
by dilwyn
This is not the one asked for, but may come in useful. They are similar to LINE, LINE_R, POINT and INK but apparently up to about 20x faster

It's a FastLine article by David J Perry originally published in the old Popular Computing Weekly magazine on 15th January 1987. The article was added to Quanta Library at some point by Michael L Jackson.
fastline.zip
FastLine
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Re: Fast PLOT/DRAW Toolkit

Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 10:33 pm
by Andrew
Thank you, Dilwyn