[Coco] SAVEM semigraphics screen

[Robert Gault]

You can get some pointers by downloading my program Semigraphics24 and 
you won't have to reinvent the wheel.
http://home.att.net/~robert.gault/Coco/Downloads/Downloads.htm

David wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm away from my coco at the moment, but I was pondering..
> 
> If I was to 'snapshot' a text-semigraphics screen using:
> 
> SAVEM "FILENAME", &H200, &H600, &Hdummy-execution-address
> 
> Could I then, inside a BASIC program
> 
> LOADM"FILENAME"
> 
> to get that screen back CoCo-Diskdrive-"Instantly"?
> 
> Is there a better way of creating/storing/using multiple 
> full-textscreen-graphics?
> 
> (to create one screen, I've manually calculated and typed in some 512 
> DATA figures.. tedious to say the least!)
> 
> I've considered also loading multiple 512-byte screens into unused 
> memory space and using a short assembler program POKE'd or LOADM'd in to 
> fast-copy the appropriate data to the text-screen memory area
> 
> What are some of the opinions of the group as to 'best practice' here?
> 
> (Target software is combo BASIC/ASM, for info's sake)
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> 
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