Fun with the 23606

[alban lusitanae]

Hi forum, how are you today?

I have meant to ask this for a while but to be honest I forgot. So in my review after a while of the system adresses i have checked the address 23606

Now if you do say a POKE 23606,4 you will see it rolls up the letters a bit. To make it fun I just make it roll like this in an old program

10 for n=30 to 0 step -1: poke 23606,n
20 print at 10,10;"HELLO WORLD"
30 Next N

Now i have an idea for a use to this, but i needed the letters to roll down without going lowercase imediately starting at -1.

Any thoughts?

[madaxe]

Hi there!
Maybe teaching the alphabet to the kids

[alban lusitanae]

Actually, that ALMOST works. now if I can find a way to get the @ and then move it up...

[alban lusitanae]

aha found a way to do what I wanted Thanks

[Dr beep]

I wanted to use the trick in a game with rollers and characters.
If you define your own characterset with 1 character double at the end you can make rollers by printing a character.
When final character is displayed go back to first.

Effect will be like this 1K ZX81 fruitmachine (it uses a similar trick but in MC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMguVegQSUQ

[alban lusitanae]

I'm still basic mate very basic. Since I need something to get my mind out of real life, I started eperimenting after years. I can say I am doing alright after a short while but a LOT of ways to go