[Coco] CoCo Coding Continues - Chapter 22 in BASIC - GET and PUT is available

[Steve Strowbridge]

Thanks Rich!


Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great job and great explanation!
>
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Steve Strowbridge
> <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hot off the heels of yesterday's epic video covering GET and PUT in
> > Extended Color BASIC, today I greatly improved the DIY Rocketship demo,
> > adding better effects and improved speed.  A thorough blog post and video
> > were created to explain every detail, check it out!
> >
> > Video:  https://youtu.be/DaPD-t9hu8c
> > Blog:
> > http://ogsteviestrow.com/updating-the-rocketship-demo-
> the-anatomy-of-a-getput-demo/
> >
> > Steve Strowbridge, aka
> > The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> > http://ogsteviestrow.com
> > ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Steve Strowbridge <
> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I have been highly motivated to continue to work on the project of
> >> documenting the process of learning to program in BASIC for the Color
> >> Computer by doing my chapter-by-chapter YouTube series.  The goal is to
> >> finish the book, and start working on new, original game projects in
> BASIC.
> >>
> >> Leading up to CoCoFEST! time grew shorter, and the real world demands on
> >> me post FEST! are proving little time to do the actual leg work to make
> >> significant progress.
> >>
> >> I started blogging this recently, showing incremental progress and
> sharing
> >> some of the thoughts and ideas I was working on to make new demo
> programs.
> >>
> >> This has come to a head with the completion of recording, editing and
> >> releasing chapter 22 covering the highly useful GET and PUT commands.
> >>
> >> Video:
> >> https://youtu.be/SdFOJVdPSAo
> >>
> >> Blog Post:
> >> http://ogsteviestrow.com/chapter-22-get-and-put-its-a-wrap/
> >>
> >> I have started making my virtual floppy disks containing all of my
> sample
> >> programs available, and these latest demos are included in the latest
> blog
> >> post.
> >>
> >> GET and PUT are the graphical versions of Copy and Paste and allow you
> to
> >> capture a piece of graphics data, and reproduce it anywhere else on the
> >> screen.  These can be used to create animation, be used to simulate
> >> sprites, and can even be used to scroll areas of, or the entire screen.
> >>
> >> Doing all this in BASIC comes at a heavy toll of CPU overhead so the
> speed
> >> isn't arcade or commercial quality, but the things you can pull off are
> >> quite impressive with just a few commands, and some ingenuity.
> >>
> >> I have taken it upon myself to create a custom demo that hopefully
> >> provides a much better visual representation of what all the various PUT
> >> options are, from PSET, to PRESET, to AND, OR, NOT, show how various
> >> combinations of colors/pixels/bits combine (or don't) depending on what
> >> gets "put" on top of what, and closed out the show with an "epic" cheesy
> >> demo showing a rocket ship blast off and "fly" through space, including
> >> some "fancy" page flipping/double buffering techniques I used as a kid.
> >>
> >> I hope this video is worthy of the power that GET and PUT allows us, and
> >> hope people like it.
> >>
> >> #becausecoco
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve Strowbridge, aka
> >> The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> >> http://ogsteviestrow.com
> >> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
> >>
> >>
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