Hires Graphics

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:20 am

Hi,

This program displays an Earth globe. You specify the longitude, and latitude, that is centered. The north pole is always facing up.

In line 11, R1 can be adapted for different aspect ratios: R1=57 is correct for PAL; NTSC, and VICE should use R1=71, and R1=47, respectively. Line 11 also contains a {PI} symbol. That noted, any tokenizer should work.

Cheers,

Michael

Edit: type-in listing removed. It is contained in the MG batch suite.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:08 am

Another wonder to show to my C64 friends

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Here's a screenshot of the new desktop, after a bit of GIMPing on the image:

I'm working on the animated gif of the revolving globe now - it will take a while, but the result will be the first 3D animation made with a Commodore VIC-20 (well, with a little help from other tools, but...

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ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:17 am

Wow, that's impressive. Especially considering the small size of the code.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:42 am

HERE

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:47 am

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:06 am

Jeff-20 wrote:

A perfect candidate to include in the Denial home page images.

Alessandro, you've had a great idea. Could you make a GIF animation with 24 phases (one for each hour)?

Michael

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:15 pm

OK 15 degrees instead of 20. And invert the sense of rotation, of course.

Tomorrow

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:52 am

Done. As usual, smoother if played in Windows viewer.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:02 am

Fine.

Which latitude did you use?

Michael

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:32 am

30° N. Slightly north of the Tropic of Capricorn (23° N). Best angle to see Europe, Greenland, the whole Africa, Asia, and the Americas (Tierra del Fuego being few pixels out).
Not so nice view of Australia, and no Antarctica at all though.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:35 am

I can see my house from here!

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:01 am

Legacy · Post by **Legacy** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:18 pm

I wish you guys would post programs in lower case, it makes it a pain when I paste into VICE

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:56 pm

Hi, Legacy,

cut and paste are quite a recent addition to VICE. Short that facility being available in VICE before, there were already other tokenizers around, like Schlowski's BasEdit, which can handle upper-case letters. BasEdit produces *.prg files.

Listings without control chars, or special symbols can be transferred with a small 4-line program.

Michael

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:13 am

Legacy wrote:I wish you guys would post programs in lower case, it makes it a pain when I paste into VICE

Copy and paste in M$ Word, select all, and press shift+F3. Voilà.