[Coco] Back to BASIC

[Steve Strowbridge]

Happy Good Friday everyone!

Chapter 18 is uploaded in 3 parts, it was a doozy, but we're dealing with
the PMODE command, and Page Switching, and Page copying, pretty cool stuff.

So we cover PCLEAR, PMODE, and PCOPY.

The program in the book has us create an animated YoYo in 8 pages of 2
color low res graphics, and cycles through them very nicely.
We learn how to draw on different pages, copy information from one page to
another, and then there is a DIY program that challenges us to create
random lightning storms on various pages, and then randomly flip through
them to create the "animated storm" what I ended up with was "OK" but far
from a work of art!


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


On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Francis Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:

> From: John Lochey <jlochey at yahoo.com>
>
> Hi Steve,
> I think I have a lot to catch up on "period".
> Not having "grown up" with the CoCo, but the other one (Commodore), I have
> tons to catch up on and I'm LOVING IT!
> The only downside, ALL my questions are super-newbie questions....  Oh
> well!  :)
>
> Johnny
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> You can "catch up" a lot by downloading "Tandy's Little Wonder" (
> http://sparksandflames.com/files/TandysLittleWonder-2nded.pdf). Lots of
> history, repair guide, and a "survival" users guide... and more!  Frank
> Swygert
>  Fix-It-Frank Handyman Service
>  803-604-6548
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