Recently, I got a request to add particle effects to Grammer and I was originally going to just avoid this, thinking it would be too complex. However, the idea started bugging me and so I thought back to a post by Builderboy. So during class, naturally, I started trying to code a water-like particle effect... and it works! The only issue is that it can only do a few cycles a second once it has to handle 100 particles, so this is where I am:

I am going to work on an assembly particle engine that BASIC users can use. I plan to add this to Grammer, too, but for now, I want to make it for BASIC users. For the first version, I plan to use non-user RAM (saveSScreen in this case) to store particle data and it will handle up to a few hundred particles. There will be a command to add or remove particles as well as a command to run a cycle (or multiple cycles?) I also want to add the ability to save particle states, eventually, too.

So what do y'all think? I will try to come up with some working code before I have to go to work (so in the next 45 minutes 3:-) )

Blegh, so I am not going to finish in time, but I have these commands finished:

Clearing all particles
The water particle engine

What I need to add:
A command to add particles
A command to delete particles

These should be doable in under 10 minutes, so these will be attended to after I get out of work in about 4 hours

Hey sorry my idea "bugged you", I actually thought it was a stupidly hard suggestion *after* I posted it. But it is awesome to see you actually doing it! I wouldn't (after I thought about it) have thought it would be plausible to make a usable dynamic particle system for the Z80.

So there's a chance that grammer will only go to math/science programming

Wow that looks cool Xeda!