OpenEuphoria

Games in 257....

• Posted by Patrick Quist <quistnet at HOTMAIL.COM> Oct 12, 1998
• 575 views

Hy,

I've searched for the best graphics mode in EU and I think it's 257.
I've been looking in and around Euphoria the WWW-Pages and
I've found many games, But almost every game of them works in
mode 18 or 19, never 257.
I asked myself WHY????
Because 257 cannot display Virtual Screens?
I can understand that that's important for Transparancy and
to walk thru all those pages directly instead of displaying one
by one like in C&C.
I can understand the 2nd reason a little bit.
Because your game looks BIG, but mode 257 is 640x480, not 320x200.
I cannot understand the transparancy tricks of it,
the codes are so complicated, and you can make it much easier.
Here is a code I use and it is made/created by me.
-- Begin of SCREEN.E --
global sequence colors1,colors2,spoint1,spoint2
sequence temp
global integer transcol

spoint1={0,0}
spoint2={0,0}
colors1={}
colors2={}
transcol=0
temp={0,0}

global procedure convert()
temp[1]=spoint2[1]-spoint1[1]
temp[2]=spoint2[2]-spoint1[2]
for xx=1 to length(colors2) do
 for yy=1 to length(colors2[xx]) do
   colors2[xx][yy]=colors2[xx][yy]
   if colors2[xx][yy]=transcol then
    colors2[xx][yy]=colors1[temp[2]+xx][temp[1]+yy]
   end if
 end for
end for
end procedure

global procedure convert_2()
for xx=1 to length(colors2) do
 for yy=1 to length(colors2[xx]) do
  if colors2[xx][yy]=transcol then
  else
   colors1[xx+spoint2[2]][yy+spoint2[1]]=colors2[xx][yy]
  end if
 end for
end for
end procedure

-- End of SCREEN.E --

(SPoint stands for Starting point of picture.)
(Colors stands for the image.)
Colors1=Big image(background).
Colors2=Small image(foreground).
With Covert() you can make Colors2 transparant, but
 every time you change the SPoint you have to call CONVERT() again.
 (But it's very quick)
With Convert_2() you can make Colors2 transparant, but it stays
on Colors1.

What do you think about this ?
Do you know any games made in EU and that are in 257 ?

Bye!

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