Alternative CLS

ALTERNATIVE CLS


by Wayne Hunt





For those times when a CLS just isn't enough This chunk of code gives


you fourteen alternatives to everyone's favourite command. The


different routines, their addresses and lengths, are outlined at the


top of the very next column.





* Bar FX - 60000, 49


* Attributes - 60049, 51


* Mirror FX - 60100, 34


* Xer Scroll - 60134, 36


[This is wrong. There's a redundant routine at that address.]


[The correct address is 60149, size 21. JimG]


* Fader - 60170, 38


* Shutter FX - 60208, 22


* Pixels Up - 60230, 43


* Pixels Down - 60273, 53


* Pixels Right - 60326, 18


* Pixels Left - 60344, 18





If I were you, I'd type them all in first using the Decimal Loader


provided, then you can try them out and save the ones you like


separately. It's relocatable, so you stick them where you like (within


reason), and to get each routine going, just type RAND USR start


address, except for the character scroll, which needs RAND USR 60148


to start [(60148) is just a NOP; the routine starts at 60149. JimG].


Incidentally, you may have noticed, there are fourteen methods but


only ten routines; this is because you can use the horizontal and


vertical pixel scrollers together to make, erm, diagonal ones. Oh, and


xer stands for character. (Little throwback to Computer Science


lessons there. Schooldays, eh?)