how would you put that in though?
It seems like that would be more inefficient.


Anyone got an idea to make everything but in the view of the scope black?

I was saying that that's what you're doing with the Rand^24/25+x->x. It's only every 13 cycles on average that X is incremented by a nonzero amount.

And for your scope thing, in Psuedo-code a routine might look like this.
ClrDraw
Rect(0,0,96,65)
...
RectI(X,Y,X+2R,Y+2R)     \\Clears the rectangle that squares the circle of the Scope
Fill outer perimeter of scope     \\Fill the parts of the rectangle that are supposed to be black
Draw background stuff to appear
Rect(X,Y,X+2R,Y+2R)     \\returns screen to original setup

Don't bother restricting your pictures only to the Scope. If the rest of the screen is black, then drawing black on top won't do anything and will save program size, if not execution speed.

EDIT: I'd recommend using a bitmap to fill the outer perimeter of the scope.

what I mean is draw the first pic and change it to the second pic.  then you can draw inside the circle to get something like the third pic.

How did you make that circle!?!!!!!
It is amazing compared to mine.

Quote from: happybobjr on October 21, 2010, 08:36:23 pm

how would you put that in though?
It seems like that would be more inefficient.


Anyone got an idea to make everything but in the view of the scope black?

I was saying that that's what you're doing with the Rand^24/25+x->x. It's only every 13 cycles on average that X is incremented by a nonzero amount.

And for your scope thing, in Psuedo-code a routine might look like this.

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ClrDraw
Rect(0,0,96,65)
...
RectI(X,Y,X+2R,Y+2R)     \\Clears the rectangle that squares the circle of the Scope
Fill outer perimeter of scope     \\Fill the parts of the rectangle that are supposed to be black
Draw background stuff to appear
Rect(X,Y,X+2R,Y+2R)     \\returns screen to original setup

Don't bother restricting your pictures only to the Scope. If the rest of the screen is black, then drawing black on top won't do anything and will save program size, if not execution speed.

EDIT: I'd recommend using a bitmap to fill the outer perimeter of the scope.

I don't know anything about bitmaps

but what is a bitmap??

so why bother making Pt-on command?
are there benefits?

so why bother making Pt-on command?
are there benefits?

It's easier to use and I believe it's more efficient because the algorithm doesn't have to handle an arbitrary amount of data. The 8x8 status is also a power of 2, so the Pt-On algorithm can be optimized that way.

i  am using 4 pt-on commands now

Note: i ran some tests and bitmaps take about 15 times as much time as 4 sprites

I opted for 'Other-Specify'.

You should have like three, four or even 5 guys going around(and more will come). You have to keep shooting them.
If you fail, no problem.

More and more guys will come, and you have to eliminate them as they come.

If, for example, 20 guys are on the screen, you lose, set highscore