This is just a warm-up to see what I can do in Oric. This is after a couple days of studying the manual and applying what I've learned in Batari Basic to Oric Basic.
http://www.atari2600land.com/PUCKMAN.tap
BTW, is there a way to get rid of the blinking cursor in the corner?
My first game
Here are some tricks for you:
You can get rid of the blinking cursor and the click click of the keyboard by doing POKE #26A,10
The bits in #26A define a number of things:
- 0 -> Cursor visible or not
- 1 -> Video output enabled or not (software only)
- 3 -> Key-click enabled or not
- 4 -> Store if the last displayed character was ESCAPE
- 5 -> Protect or not the two first columns of screen when using PRINT
Bits 2, 6 and 7 are not used
If you want to get rid of the CAPS message in the top of the screen, you can just do a POKE #BB80+35,0
#BB80 is the start address of the screen, and 35 is the offset to reach the character just before the word CAPS, and 0 is an attribute which mean "BLACK INK"
Hope it helps
You can get rid of the blinking cursor and the click click of the keyboard by doing POKE #26A,10
The bits in #26A define a number of things:
- 0 -> Cursor visible or not
- 1 -> Video output enabled or not (software only)
- 3 -> Key-click enabled or not
- 4 -> Store if the last displayed character was ESCAPE
- 5 -> Protect or not the two first columns of screen when using PRINT
Bits 2, 6 and 7 are not used
If you want to get rid of the CAPS message in the top of the screen, you can just do a POKE #BB80+35,0
#BB80 is the start address of the screen, and 35 is the offset to reach the character just before the word CAPS, and 0 is an attribute which mean "BLACK INK"
Hope it helps