Some Silly Eye Candy: FIREWORKS

[ahenry3068]

This one has to be loaded with BASLOAD.

Playing around with different ideas for a VICTORY Screen for HANGMAN.
Don't know if this is the one, but if it is there will be a Text Banner overlay
and Pallette animation added.

So here it is.

FIREWORKS2.BAS

(2.21 KiB) Downloaded 145 times

Tokenized End User doesn't need BASLOAD

FIREWORKS2.PRG

(1.61 KiB) Downloaded 139 times

Another Variation
Source (requires BASLOAD)

FIREWORKS3.BAS

(2.32 KiB) Downloaded 106 times

Tokenized

FIREWORKS3.PRG

(1.7 KiB) Downloaded 111 times

[nulcow]

Is it meant to run faster? When I run it in the emulator it's too slow to be a convincing firework effect.

[ahenry3068]

I ported this from code written for a faster platform. I wasn't quite happy with it myself. It might be useful if blitzed though. I thought it was worth posting here.

Its more convincing in the Emulator if you start the emulator with -warp

[bjazmoore]

Tokenized End User doesn't need BASLOAD
FIREWORKS2.PRG

May I ask how you tokenized a BAS file so it does not need to be loaded with BASLOAD?

[TomXP411]

Tokenized End User doesn't need BASLOAD
FIREWORKS2.PRG

May I ask how you tokenized a BAS file so it does not need to be loaded with BASLOAD?

After loading it with BASLOAD, you just SAVE it with a new filename. The saved file will be tokenized and line numbered.

[voidstar]

After doing BASLOAD, do a LIST command. You'll see that the "plain text" BASLOAD code has been "compiled" (or "adapted") into a regular BASIC program. So then as Tom said, you just SAVE that.

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BASLOAD "SOMEPROG.BASL"
LIST : REM OPTIONAL
SAVE "@:SOMEPROG.PRG"

It's why I prefer the BASL extension, to help remind me it is that "plain text" format, and less likely to accidentally SAVE back over it.