BASIC drawing proggy

[zxooner]

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[zxooner]

ok, I have simplified things even further... as the ZX81 has such lovely graphics creation built right into the keyboard I have lumped for a mix of ascii/Sinclair art that works nicely.

Now that I have a full 16k (following the incredibly generous repair/replacement help from @LardoBoffin I can doodle away to my hearts content and even fill up an entire screen

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10 INPUT A$
20 LPRINT A$
30 GOTO 10

Once the ZXPand+ is here, I will just add a line to SAVE so that I can recall A$ again if needed.. (though if I am right I may need to tweak as the ZXPand+ takes away printer commands?) ... I can't save to tape or sound file as i think my cassette leads are duff and I haven't bothered replacing as SD card option is coming soon.

Anyways, here's the piccy that I could only do half of before as I bombed out of memory when I only had the basic 1k

will post back when I've got the full proggy for save/recall and so on

[Lardo Boffin]

You are welcome!

It never ceases to amaze me how visually impressive such low resolution graphics can be when used well.
I remember my O’level art teaching banging on about ‘capturing the impression’ when drawing etc. but my brain works on fine detail so I never really got that. I could do an extremely detailed / accurate drawing or painting of what I could see but had no real abilities beyond that.
That probably doesn’t make sense but anyway - great image.

[zxooner]

That makes complete sense - I find that if I think too much about a picture I get nowhere at all with it... I have to find that lores zone in my brain and just go with what comes out!

[zxooner]

OK, here's the final rendition, for 'ascii' art. (I wonder what to call ascii on the zeddy....?)

well, I say 'final' I just need to build in an option for enabling and disabling the printer commands if you are using ZXPand+

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1 REM ASCII ART PROGGY
2 PRINT "IS A$ PRESENT? (Y/N)"
3 IF INKEY$="Y" THEN GOTO 6
4 IF INKEY$="N" THEN GOTO 9
5 GOTO 3
6 CLS
7 PRINT A$
8 GOTO 10
9 CLS
10 PAUSE 40000
18 IF INKEY$="S" THEN GOTO 80
19 IF INKEY$="P" THEN GOTO 90
20 IF INKEY$="Q" THEN GOTO 100
30 INPUT A$
40 PRINT A$
50 GOTO 10
80 SAVE "ASCII"
90 LPRINT A$
91 GOTO 10
100 PRINT "QUITTING"
110 STOP

Start the proggy with GOTO 1

[Shaun_B]

hey all,

I've written a very simple drawing proggy to use on my unexpanded zeddy and I'm pretty happy with it.

***edit*** there is now an 'ascii' version with save and print options, too.

You litterally move the pointer around the screen with the four keys, then the T key will raise or lower the pen and allow you to draw or erase. It does everything I need really and I can get a simple picture done before it bombs out of available memory.

One thing I would like, however, is the ability to save the drawing once it has been made on the screen, and I hijacked @mrtinb's thread, to that effect. Got some good suggestions on that thread, so once I have been able to expand the RAM (either with the blank screen ram pack that i cant get to work, or with the ZXpand+ that I have pre-ordered) i will report back.


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plan.jpg

Hi,

I've done a refactor which I think should save some bytes of RAMs.

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Regards,

Shaun.

[gammaray]

OK, here's the final rendition, for 'ascii' art. (I wonder what to call ascii on the zeddy....?)

Call it ZAXCII of course! 'zacks - kee'

"The ZAXCII character code 28 is'0'. "