The Lords of Midnight is my all time favourite game from my childhood (I played it on the zx spectrum), so I love the idea of this project.
I think you have the right idea about finding commonalities with the graphics elements.
So instead of calling separate functions for each graphical element, I thought why not just have one "Drawing" procedure, that we call for every graphical element. The procedure can do 5 things, Move/Draw/Plot(Triangle)/Plot(Rectangle)/Change Color, and we build each graphic with those.
I've never coded in this language before, so you can probably do a lot better. I borrowed your magic print statement that made the colours blue. I have no idea how that works.![:shock:]( "Shocked")
(And the way you make the trees is genius)
Here's an example of 5 objects (wastes/citadel/keep/mountains/tower) and how to draw them (I kept the graphics simple):
https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22 ... %5Cn%22%7D
I tried to integrate this with one of your earlier code versions, but there's memory issues with Mode 1. I reckon switching to Mode 5 (still 4 colours, but a little blockier) would give you more room for actual game code. Here's a rough and ready example of what mode 5 would look like mashing your code together with what I did today:
https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22 ... PROC%22%7D
I think that mode change would give you close to an extra 10k to code with, but as I said, this is my first day with this. The graphics would need to be remade slightly for the new mode. Anyway, do keep going with this. I'm fascinated by what's possible.![:)]( "Smile")
I think you have the right idea about finding commonalities with the graphics elements.
So instead of calling separate functions for each graphical element, I thought why not just have one "Drawing" procedure, that we call for every graphical element. The procedure can do 5 things, Move/Draw/Plot(Triangle)/Plot(Rectangle)/Change Color, and we build each graphic with those.
I've never coded in this language before, so you can probably do a lot better. I borrowed your magic print statement that made the colours blue. I have no idea how that works.
(And the way you make the trees is genius)Here's an example of 5 objects (wastes/citadel/keep/mountains/tower) and how to draw them (I kept the graphics simple):
https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22 ... %5Cn%22%7D
I tried to integrate this with one of your earlier code versions, but there's memory issues with Mode 1. I reckon switching to Mode 5 (still 4 colours, but a little blockier) would give you more room for actual game code. Here's a rough and ready example of what mode 5 would look like mashing your code together with what I did today:
https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22 ... PROC%22%7D
I think that mode change would give you close to an extra 10k to code with, but as I said, this is my first day with this. The graphics would need to be remade slightly for the new mode. Anyway, do keep going with this. I'm fascinated by what's possible.
Statistics: Posted by shadow — Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:16 pm