Re: A82: My first question of many to come

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: My first question of many to come
From: David Eriksson/2GooD Productions <david@2goodsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 07:55:17 +0100
In-Reply-To: <199802022130.PAA21533@dfw-ix11.ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org


At 15:30 1998-02-02 -0600, you wrote:
>            ack! I'm having my first problem with Dune 2, and i'm sure 
>this is all due to my programming incompetence. Ok..
>    I want an animation to be running in the top right corner of the 
>screen..(depicting what is being built, etc..)..while the calc checks 
>for keys. However, I'm having problems doing both. If I try it without 
>delaying the animation, what I get is a blurred sprite. If I add a 
>delay to the animation, in order to make you "see" the animation and 
>slow it down, it also slows the checking of keys, making it choppy and 
>bad. Basically, I'm wondering how the programmer of little dude did 
>it...with the constant animation of the squares, but also good key 
>response. Ack! I think I'm really dumb for not knowing how to do this, 
>so I apologize for my ignorance...any suggestions?
>                                                    ~Kurai

Why not make a loop (maybe reading the key directly from the i/o port) which updates the animation, say, every 100 times? Replace 100 with whatever makes good animation speed.


Regards,
                     -/- David Eriksson -/-

2 G o o D   P r o d u c t i o n s  ->  http://www.2goodsoft.com/

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Re: A82: My first question of many to come

From: Kurai Highsmith <moonbeem@ix.netcom.com>

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A82: My first question of many to come

From: moonbeem@ix.netcom.com (Kurai Highsmith)