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BASIC SCREEN $80 and PSET, RECT, etc
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:36 pm
by Iegen
Does PSET, and RECT work in SCREEN $80 in the R41 emulator?
The documentation says there are two layers on SCREEN $80, one graphic and one text. When I do RECT 100,100,200,200,2 ... nothing happens on the screen in immediate mode. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you
BASIC SCREEN $80 and PSET, RECT, etc
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2022 9:36 pm
by Ender
Not sure what you're doing wrong. That same command seems to work fine for me.
BASIC SCREEN $80 and PSET, RECT, etc
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:49 pm
by Iegen
It's working now for me also. Not sure what I was doing to make it not work.
BASIC SCREEN $80 and PSET, RECT, etc
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2022 5:11 pm
by Edmond D
On 12/25/2022 at 6:49 AM, Iegen said:
It's working now for me also. Not sure what I was doing to make it not work.
Perhaps a previous command set the system "off." As a software QA I've seen problems where the system goes into the weeds but doesn't indicate a problem whatsoever until a "future" trigger exhibits a problem that it normally wouldn't.
Windows users might be familiar with the "Reboot and Retry" troubleshooting method of solving a problem.
BASIC SCREEN $80 and PSET, RECT, etc
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:00 pm
by kelli217
On 12/25/2022 at 11:11 AM, Edmond D said:
Windows users might be familiar with the "Reboot and Retry" troubleshooting method of solving a problem.
Or the Roy-Moss method, aka "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"
BASIC SCREEN $80 and PSET, RECT, etc
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:29 pm
by Edmond D
On 12/27/2022 at 10:00 AM, kelli217 said:
On 12/25/2022 at 9:11 AM, Edmond D said:
Windows users might be familiar with the "Reboot and Retry" troubleshooting method of solving a problem.
Or the Roy-Moss method, aka "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"
Back in the NT days support would say re-install the OS which gave the programmers a day or so to figure out what a real solution to the reported issue would be. The 8 bit days didn't have that stall tactic; perhaps in part because direct customer support didn't exist.
