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PQ93

a fantasy console for making small games · By transmutrix

Possible undocumented features?

A topic by ScriptShark created Nov 20, 2021 Views: 302 Replies: 2
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Hey again pennie, decided to make a new thread for this topic.

I noticed while reading through the PQ93 manual that it seems one or more APIs may not be listed in the API reference section. For example, with the wheel.p93 code example on page 6, the top of the code uses the statements "WIDTH" and "HEIGHT", which when searched (Ctrl+F), it is not explained or mentioned anywhere in the document except for that specific use. Obviously it is the width and height of the screen, but since this was not shown I was worried that there's more useful information not being displayed in the manual.

Second to this, it would be nice to include a section that explains some things about the engine more specifically, such as if the game loop runs every 30th or 60th of a second (30fps or 60fps), etc.

Developer

Hello again! Yes, the API documentation isn't stellar at present. The next release will have documentation for every function + constant, although it will be rendered to text or HTML instead of a hand-crafted PDF haha. PQ93 attempts to run at 60 FPS, always. The present version of PQ93 has a timing problem in current Chrome and Safari, but this too has been fixed for the next release.

Thanks for the information