so i think i know my plan of attack.
Uncategorized
26
Posts
8
Posters
0
Views
-
@eniko did you hear about notepad++ getting hacked by chinese spies to spy on everyone using it?
@bri7 yeah i did
-
@bri7 yeah i did
@eniko well as long as you’re taking all precautions i’d advise against forcing yourself to use qbasic ide- as much as that would make cross platform running in dosbox easier
-
@eniko well as long as you’re taking all precautions i’d advise against forcing yourself to use qbasic ide- as much as that would make cross platform running in dosbox easier
@bri7 but... its a nostalgia trip? >_>
-
@bri7 but... its a nostalgia trip? >_>
@eniko nostalgia is best when it’s how i remember it being, not how it actually was with its aged like milk UI choices.
And programming a new qbasic ide might be a bit much to take on up front
-
now i gotta decide if i wanna do this inside the qbasic IDE for retro charm or if im just gonna use notepad++ on my workstation with a dosbox launcher
eyyy its fuckin' working!
-
eyyy its fuckin' working!
@eniko page to page communication
-
eyyy its fuckin' working!
sadly i cannot use PRINT for text because it only works in 8 pixel rows and columns and wouldn't you know it: 100 is not cleanly divisible by 8
which means i can't ever align the text the same vertically on both pages
-
undefined oblomov@sociale.network shared this topic on
-
sadly i cannot use PRINT for text because it only works in 8 pixel rows and columns and wouldn't you know it: 100 is not cleanly divisible by 8
which means i can't ever align the text the same vertically on both pages
im filling the screen with tiles using PUT and then page flipping as fast as i can. i know dosbox isn't that accurate, but i set the cpu type to 386 and set cycles to 6000 which the conf file suggests is 386-ish (i found somewhere else that said 7800 is better so if anything its running slow)
and it's running at 52 fps :D
-
im filling the screen with tiles using PUT and then page flipping as fast as i can. i know dosbox isn't that accurate, but i set the cpu type to 386 and set cycles to 6000 which the conf file suggests is 386-ish (i found somewhere else that said 7800 is better so if anything its running slow)
and it's running at 52 fps :D
@eniko Wow, this sure brings back memories. QBasic...
-
im filling the screen with tiles using PUT and then page flipping as fast as i can. i know dosbox isn't that accurate, but i set the cpu type to 386 and set cycles to 6000 which the conf file suggests is 386-ish (i found somewhere else that said 7800 is better so if anything its running slow)
and it's running at 52 fps :D
@eniko huh, TIL. I just knew that 23880 is "about 486 dx2/66" speed
-
@eniko huh, TIL. I just knew that 23880 is "about 486 dx2/66" speed
@devlin i dunno, i found this https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Performance which says 26800
and the dosbox staging conf file suggests 25000
-
@tonyg hmm yeah that's a possibility. but none of the qbasic drawing functions would work on that last 4 lines, so that's kind of a problem
i suppose i could cut those lines and go with 160x96 instead of 160x100?
-
@eniko Wow, this sure brings back memories. QBasic...
@Craigp its a lot of fun working around the limitations :D especially since i'm not using the faster compiled one and i refuse to use assembly tricks
-
im filling the screen with tiles using PUT and then page flipping as fast as i can. i know dosbox isn't that accurate, but i set the cpu type to 386 and set cycles to 6000 which the conf file suggests is 386-ish (i found somewhere else that said 7800 is better so if anything its running slow)
and it's running at 52 fps :D
@eniko It's very approximate, but 6000 would be apx a 386 at almost 33MHz. So yeah, it's a 386, but a pretty fast one.
Well, most basic was originally meant to run on crazy low stuff like an 8088, so if you're emulating a decent system it's going to go pretty well I guess.
-
im filling the screen with tiles using PUT and then page flipping as fast as i can. i know dosbox isn't that accurate, but i set the cpu type to 386 and set cycles to 6000 which the conf file suggests is 386-ish (i found somewhere else that said 7800 is better so if anything its running slow)
and it's running at 52 fps :D
notched it up to 486 33mhz and added a vblank wait and now its rocking a steady 70fps 💪
-
@tonyg hmm yeah that's a possibility. but none of the qbasic drawing functions would work on that last 4 lines, so that's kind of a problem
i suppose i could cut those lines and go with 160x96 instead of 160x100?
@eniko Oh, I see. Yeah, on the second page. That's a shame!
-
@eniko Oh, I see. Yeah, on the second page. That's a shame!
@tonyg its fine to be honest. making my own variable width font means i'll be able to cram way more text onto the screen anyway, even if its a bit of a pain
-
@Craigp its a lot of fun working around the limitations :D especially since i'm not using the faster compiled one and i refuse to use assembly tricks
@eniko When I was using it, I didn't even know what a compiler was. And if I left the machine on for more than an hour, it would overheat and begin randomly flipping bits.
Enforced breaks, probably should be part of modern machines too.
-
@eniko When I was using it, I didn't even know what a compiler was. And if I left the machine on for more than an hour, it would overheat and begin randomly flipping bits.
Enforced breaks, probably should be part of modern machines too.
@Craigp i tried to make games that ran well but i never got anywhere with it. coming back to it now is like sweet revenge :'D
-
notched it up to 486 33mhz and added a vblank wait and now its rocking a steady 70fps 💪
@eniko For a bit of scale, 6000 cycles may be potentially achievable on a 3DS (albeit with shortcuts and less than stellar accuracy in emulation.) I think a Raspberry Pi 3 can possibly handle the 12000ish you're talking about there. Maybe a RPi 2, not sure. (But probably not a 1 or a zero.)
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
-
@simonperry alla fine ha retto di notte la pompa di calore?
-
Nuovi orizzonti http://adrianomaini.altervista.org/nuovi-orizzonti/
-
@fucinafibonacci @sport immagino perché è anche la sua lingua o magari perché gran parte delle tensioni mondiali (che impediscono la pace) vengono da quell'area. Ma in effetti includere tutte le lingue era impossibile.
-
@aeva yeah baby!
-
@aeva shragment fader
-
shagment frader
-
Tu es Pierre et sur cette pierre je ferai de la musique
Évangile (Mt 16,13-20)
tags : musique de pierre, le lithophone est un instrument de musique datant de la Préhistoire, #music #sunday #religion #history #Vietnam
-
@ekuber i think it's an EU regulation that you have to indicate the origin of fruits and vegetables. This is certainly the case in Italy too, they generally indicate regional production too. And it does impact sales somewhat, but people buy out of season fruit from abroad just the same, cause it's a cultural issue.
