While I'm learning all the ins and outs of Celtic III, I thought I would make a little slots program.

Here's what I have so far:


I need more sprites (look here). I also need to get figure out why real(9 doesn't work..

Also, does anybody know if I can randomize a list. I want it to keep the same numbers, just different order. I also need to figure out a way to make the 3 different wheels go at different speeds, but I'll work on that later.

interesting, I assume you display two pictures, one with white in front of a black pic as kind of masking in front of the slot items, right? My suggestion would be to make them scroll at 2 or 4 pixels everytime, so it's not too easy to stop them at the right time

Yeah I'm just trying to get them to work right now, then I'll change the speeds. Actually I have it working a little differently than that.

First, I load the 3 "wheels" at the top of the screen. Then I scroll it down, and save the pic (none of this is displayed). Then I create a white box above and below the wheel picture to get rid of all of the excess stuff. Then I just OR the main pic on top of it all. To do it again I xOR the main pic so it gets rid of it, then start over. Kind of complicated, but it seemed the best way to do it. Right now it moves all 3 wheels at the same time because I'm saving them all to the same pic, but I'm going to start saving them to different pics and scrolling them so I can get varying speeds.

Lol yeah, but it works. If I can't get the real(9 function to work with Celtic III, I'm going to have to switch to xLIB

hmm, well, that is odd. It sounds like you have a logic error. If you don't think so, substitute the TOGGLEPIC command, "identity(1"

Hmm alright I'll try giving that a shot.

I would do as kevin said and increase the scroll speed, but also slots have the reals stop at different intervals (ie, the first one stops then 2 spins later the second one etc..)

I would do as kevin said and increase the scroll speed, but also slots have the reals stop at different intervals (ie, the first one stops then 2 spins later the second one etc..)

Yeah that's what I want it to do, 1st stops, then 2nd and finally 3rd. I'm not gonna have user stopping, but I have to figure out a way to get the to scroll at different speeds.

heh well once you finish pokemon I'll give you the source and you can have at it.

I do hope you finish

Else the Pokemon thread is gonna turn like the Zelda thread on Revsoft. I think posting Zelda on Digg and popular gamer blogs finally didn't helped much