Re: ASCII versions - for animation

[Andrew Cadley SYS Staff <ac@sys.uea.ac.uk>]

On 24 Nov 1999, Ian Collier wrote:

> Don't be such a spoil sport. :-)
>
> Without using terribly sophisticated techniques you can fill the 32x22
> Speccy screen in about 3/50 of a second, which is enough for the Star
> Wars animation at 15 frames per second.  However, you are very unlikely
> to be repainting the whole screen for every frame so in practice it will
> be faster than that.

Hmm, I suppose so. I was thinking more of the CPC though. The display is
at least twice as large in terms of memory, and it's more awkward to write
text too, since it isn't a simple bitmp (except in mono mode). I suppose
if you pre-expanded the font, and prehaps arranged it a little 
differently, you could probably do something reasonable.

It's not going to compare to the framerate you could get out of a C64/Beeb
though.
 
AndyC