Ah right, very interesting and useful, it is great to know that we can plot chars anywhere on the screen. thanks. I was asking because I have a friend who coded a game for the Amstrad CPC and as the BASIC also only allows to create monochrome user defined characters; he plots 3 chars on the same place to get as it were one char in four colours as there is a way to plot them with transparency. with VDU5 and GCOL we can do the same, awesome.
Amazing job! I had also a go and played the game on the Acorn Electron; of course it plays even slower but seems to be playing fine. I usually code in machine code for the Elk, but recently I started to have a look at its basic and I think it is the best I have every used on an 8 bit machine! I especially like the way it is possible to use inline machien code. I am curious how you paint the chess pieces I know we can only have monochrome user defined characters, by any chance is there a way to plot them with transparency? thanks
I am sorry for the late answer. I have now it working; sort of. I can compile and run the c64 example arrayTest.dpr for example but when I try to compile and run circle charmodes.dpr I get an error: J:\progretro\pas6502\examples\c64\circle charmodes.asm 296:7) Error: Unknown symbol 'mul8x8s'
I am trying to compile one of the example programs but I always get this error: "Please use "Options" to configure where the emulators are found!" even after configuring all the paths to the emulators.
