Re: A83:STILL NEED HELP!
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Re: A83:STILL NEED HELP!
In a message dated 10/20/99 6:52:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, david@acz.org
writes:
> Hehe...complicated routine? :)
>
> ld hl,SourceBuffer ; where you are copying from
> ld de,TargetBuffer ; where you want to copy to
> ld bc,768 ; the number of bytes to copy (screen is 768
> bytes)
> ldir ; copy all the bytes
>
> If this is not what you meant, sorry.
LOL. He wants to retrieve what's literally in the screen's internal cache,
not just copy from one buffer to another :-)
>
> > I draw a background pic, then I write text using _vputs. This
> > displays my text on top of my pic, but the text is on the screen, and
> > not actually in the buffer. I then call a sprite routine that reeds and
> > edits the buffer and sends it to the screen. This effectively erases the
> > text by copying the buffer, which doesn't have the text, to the screen.
> > I want to draw the background, write the text, and copy the screen to
> > the buffer, THEN run the routine. Unfortunately I am at a loss as to how
> > to copy the screen to the buffer. Is their a rom call (Please , please,
> > please) or do I have to write a complicated routine that has to read
> > each pixel 1 by 1?
>
>
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