home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- u
- C L I P S
- The Improvement
- by Dave Moorman
-
-
- While putting together the Little
- House CLIPS program with Robin
- Harbron, we realized the need for
- better resolution with text captions
- on multi-color bitmap graphics. The
- answer was to use Ken Robinson's
- magnificent RASTER BLASTER to create a
- raster interrupt split screen effect.
-
- This worked famously -- until I
- tried to incorporate music. The two
- IRQ drivers ultimately interfered with
- each other.
-
- The answer, for now, was to make
- two forms of CLIPS -- one for music,
- the other for better captions. Both
- are on this disk for your convenience.
-
-
- [B.CLIPSG] and [CLIPSG] are the files
- to use if you want nice captions like
- you will see in the Little House show.
- There is one new command:
-
- <cg#>
-
- where # sets the color of the caption
- text. To display a graphic with a
- caption, use:
-
- <dc#>
-
- where # is the number of lines of text
- that will be in the caption.
-
-
- [B.CLIPSM] and [CLIPSM] are the files
- that work exactly as described last
- month. The "M" in the name is for
- Music.
-
- We expect to bring the two
- together in one system again -- and
- hope to conquer the conflicting IRQ
- problems -- in a month or so. Stay
- tuned!
-
- And if you have some interesting
- photos, do send them to us. We will be
- glad to perform the conversions, put
- them on a CLIPSHOW script, and send it
- back to you for adding your text.
-
- [LAST MINUTE BAD NEWS:] When testing
- Little House on a real C-64, we found
- that even the split-screen interrupt
- was too unstable for loading graphics.
- So this whole thing is terribly
- experimental. We converted Little
- House back to CLIPSM.PKD format, and
- all works well.
-
- Anyone out there who would like a real
- challenge? Drop me a line, and I will
- give you whatever I have in the way of
- development. This project has become a
- lot more trouble than I thought it
- would be.
-
- DMM
-
-
-
- DMM
-
-
-