Wizzle Loader

WIZZLE


by Paul Dias





Okay, gimmick fans, this is your lucky day. You might have thought


that new ways of plopping a picture from memory onto the screen were


running pretty thin on the ground these days, but Paul Dias has,


against all probability, come up with another one. And it's got to be


one of the weirdest yet. It sort of "pours" the picture onto the


screen, giving the sort of enthralling effect that you'd be able to


sit and watch for hours if it didn't keep making you need the loo.





To use it you'll need to have a screen lying around on a tape


somewhere, but I'm sure you've got piles of those. As the machine code


is all built into the Basic program, all you've got to do is type it


in and take it from there. Upon running the thing the machine code


will be installed and you'll be given instructions on how to get the


routine working. The trick is to load your picture from tape into


memory somewhere (say, 40000) and then write a couple of lines of


Basic as instructed. These could be incorporated into a larger program


of course. There are various ways of making the screen appear, and


these can be selected by varying the numbers you put into the LET a=FN


... line.