Chapter 24 in programming in BASIC on the Color Computer, introduces us to the PLAY command, which is a very flexible BASIC statement to play music notes in a variety of ways, and offers a greater degree of options than the traditional SOUND command. The PLAY ...
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Updated Rocketship, the anatomy of a GET/PUT demo
Yesterday I unveiled chapter 22 cover the GET/PUT commands, and I hope I did them justice. Part of the chapter, was showing off my version of the chapter’s DIY challenge, create a spaceship, and have it blast off and fly through space. I did what I tho...
Chapter 22 – GET and PUT – it’s a wrap!
My latest video, chapter 22 covers the GET and PUT command, and this chapter was a long time coming! Chapter 22 covers the GET and PUT command, which are ways to visually “copy” and “paste” graphics onto the screen with a lot of optio...
The programming Notebook…
As I continue to work on the BASIC demo to show off a lot of ways to use the GET and PUT command, I find I’m already starting to get lost with what I’m doing, so I started using a good old-fashioned paper notebook, to write down variables I’m...
Fixing Fonts!
OK! So after blogging about what I wanted to do next with the fonts, and looking at the results again, I decided to take one more step in the area of “polish” and put an extra pixel (or more, when needed) between the fonts, to reduce not only the c...
Font Design, ASCII and drawing text on the screen
The most recent video I posted to YouTube in my programming in BASIC series was showing the fruits of my labor creating “fonts” which are alphabetical characters that I can display graphically using the Extended Color BASIC “DRAW” comma...
Programming in BASIC, a project 35+ years in the making
In 1981 I got my first home computer, it was a Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, it was silver, aka “Battleship Grey”, it had 16K of RAM, and I started with a cassette player as my way of saving and loading programs. I started to learn the...