Re: Tetris in Basic

[mmphosis <markwstock@yahoo.com>]

On Mar 9, 7:41 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> wow... that works well!  is it possible to print text values instead
> of using lo-res drawing routines?  Would it be faster?  e.g. you could
> write these characters as text and they show in lo-res as solid
> blocks:  ] * ; L n
>
> -Brendan

Thanks.  It works, but it's slow!  If my memory serves me, I wrote
this in 1992.

It could definitely be optimized to run faster.  The drawing
primitives are at lines 200 and 225.  It looks like the subroutine at
line 800 does collision detection.