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CropperĬropper is an open source screen capture utility that with the help of a community plug-in lets you output the result to Animated GIF format.

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It all works on Windows and are free of charge.

Here are 5 of these tools for you to check out. Something in between, an excellent tool that captures your screen motions with animated GIF would be nice. I am also growing very interested in doing more screencast as well. It took about 8kb.I am a heavy screenshot person who does a lot of screen-captures throughout my day. Those are superb stuff and feels essential to a project like this, here is the link:Īs an example, the last test was coded very sloppy with mountains of wastes. Also, attempting to mimic sprites is not practical, the best way to go is to plot over what is already on screen and erasing just the necessary blocks, like that snake mode.Ībout the last test, things are actually moving faster than I thought possible! At this point, I recalled the articles about BASIC optimization on the COCO by Allen Huffman. So PRINT is the winner for performance and memory use. While SET could be used for other types of games, for its ability to plot a pixel instead of a block, I can’t really see any benefits on using POKEs. Mode 1 is different, blocks are added sideways with a delay in space so to make a snake type animation.Ĭonclusion: PRINT has the edge over both other commands. On mode 0, all blocks will be drawn and erased just like we were doing so far, attempting to mimic sprites. The other options are not quite important, so let´s leave them off (0). What you get in this test is individual block drawings (no PRINT stacking) where you can set from 4 to 32 blocks being plotted (pens) and also 2 modes of drawing. I will draw a block, delete it, move it a block further, start over.

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Let’s test a full block moving from left to right on screen. So, whatever you plot on screen, stays there until erased, there is no transparency, erasing is a matter of plotting the background color over. On modern computers I will usually go about redrawing the whole screen every cycle, there is more than enough power for that, but not here. We also need to keep in mind that there is no such concept as sprites, where you go about plotting graphics and the computer will keep its background in memory to automatically fill it under should the sprite move. On the graphic side, I know of 3 ways to draw semigraphic blocks in BASIC: The last one is easier to manage and adapt, so at this point, it is necessary to research the prior two. With these in mind, It feels a tripod consisting of graphic performance, memory use and the game idea, will lead the core of the project.

As well as the size of the game, the bigger it is, the slower it might get.

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Game logic and AI will also hit it for it demands more code and variables.

Reading controls, be it keys or joysticks, is performance expensive.

Code structure is troublesome, depending on how it is done, the performance hit is strong.

Graphics can only be plotted fast enough, I have to check its performance.

Both the code list and variables used will eat through it, the memory use will dictate what I will be able to have in, therefore, the scope and gameplay of the final game.

Total memory for the game is about 25kb.

One can see how extra stuff got this into the 85´s arcade games I mentioned before, adding rounds, jump, crouch, other attacks, other pad types, more pads onscreen, etc.įor this project, let’s target that essence to boot, if that is no fun, whatever we add above it won´t be either.īut let’s get back to the color computer BASIC, Extended Color Basic, to be precise, these could be the major problems I kind of foresee:

That, to me, seems to be the very essence of what a fight game is. The later also adds an extra control, an action button. Within the differences between both, the later has contact in a sense that the players are on the same space and their distance to each other is a strong game element, one is constantly considering that, it is active, while the prime is more passive and has its main attention on the distance between player and ball should it be heading your way. Now that is more like Tenkaichi Budōkai 🙂

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