BritLion's Putchars

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You do realise that mine should be able to do anything from 1 character to a whole screen just by changing height and width (and making sure there's enough data at the address given!) ?

No, I was confused because you called it PutChars and not PutBlock. Your routine is working char-wise and has no attribute yet (but that is okay in most games), mine is working progressive. Anyway, yours is faster, so if you will add attribute, I would like to use it. I ask you to swap the place of height and width values:

Code:

SUB putChars(x as uByte,y as uByte,width as uByte,height as uByte,dataAddress as uInteger)

I'll see about tweaking it to accept attributes....

Thanks, this would be welcome

Do you need FLASH? It might be clever to assume you won't want to set a flashing attribute and have it assume that an attribute >128 (or negative) means that the attributes are in the data...

No, I do not need Flash. But I just noticed that while 8-Byte Char format is very good for compression (only full columns are better), using a 9-byte format is very bad for compression ratio. So what you could do, is to precalculate the adress after bitmap/char data, and use it as source for attribute data. Will this be possible?