X.x, that sucks BASIC is so slow. Oh well, at least games like yours and a few others here shows that BASIC can still make cool games at least

Nice to see this is still progressing. Can't wait to see battle system

Quote from: meishe91 on September 13, 2010, 08:42:50 pm

For the title screen is everything hard coded in with each line having it's own command or are the coordinates compressed at all?

No, no compression.  Would that be any slower?  The title screen effect requires fast displaying letters.

Compression would take too long.  How big is it now?

Well if lists were used to store the coordinate data wouldn't that save room? I have no idea though, was just a thought.

How much slower though? I can't imagine it making it to bad.

Hmm, ya. A string would also be easier to code.

Ya, thats what I was thinking too. And honestly I think lists and strings would both work. It would just be a matter of testing.

Well with lists there are a couple ways you could store to them. You could do either one set or coordinates per element or you can store up to six or seven coordinates per element. For example, if you did one set per element it would look something like {1020304,5060708,9101112,...} and then use a combination of 10^( and multiplying by a hundred to pull the right coordinate. The timing might be a little hard this way. If you did six or seven coordinates per element then you could do {1020304050607,8091011121314,15161718192021,...} and do a similar method to decompress it.

If you give me a list of coordinates, in order of how they would be displayed, I can put together an example of what I mean in action.

Also, for the string method. It's more obvious with it but I'll explain anyways. You'd basically just line them up in order of being displayed, such as "010203040506070809101112131415161718192021...", and then use a For( loop going from one to the length, minus three I think (three or four), going up by fours and just use the sub( to call the correct coordinates.

{1020902,5020507,1070907→L1
For(A,1,dim(Ans
Line(iPart(E2fPart(L1(A)/E8)),-iPart(E2fPart(L1(A)/E6)),iPart(E2fPart(L1(A)/E4)),-iPart(E2fPart(L1(A)/E2
End
Note:
Each "E" in that code is the scientific notation E.

"010209020502050701070907→Str1
For(A,1,length(Str1)-7,8
Line(expr(sub(Str1,A,2)),-expr(sub(Str1,A+2,2)),expr(sub(Str1,A+4,2)),-expr(sub(Str1,A+6,2
End
There might be optimizations that can be made, I just threw those together real fast to demonstrate the methods.

Note:
The list method is 108 bytes while the sting is 114 bytes. BUT, the string is 35 bytes while the sting is 39 bytes.