is this even possible in axe?

is this even possible in axe?

I don't see where the problem is. As long as you can read and write anywhere, you can do pretty much everything. The only problem is speed, as Streetwalrus said (that's why we don't have Assassin's Creed on calcs).

But it depends on what you want to do. You can do some simple things with lines without it being that slow. But it you want to zoom on an arbitrary image, yeah, you might run in speed issues whatever your language is.

What I did was just taking 8x8, 7x7, 6x6, 5x5, 4x4, 3x3 and 2x2 plain  black square sprites then displaying my sprite data using those. 8x8 also worked, but the bottom and right sides of the sprites were weird unless you manually erased it. However, back then, there was no Rect() command in Axe. Is Rect() faster?


This is what I had for sprite scaling, by the way. The Axe routine dates from almost 4 years ago. I don't remember if the screenshot ran at 6 MHz, though:

http://www.omnimaga.org/axe-language/enlarging-sprites/msg93657/#msg93657


Runer also made a fullscreen zoom routine if you search through that topic.


All zooming routines are slow, though. For sprites, I recommend allocating a large data buffer to store multiple copies of your sprites at different zoom levels, to display them pre-rendered later and avoid having to zoom in real time.