Static Demo

or How to Quickly Fill Your Hires Screen with Random Garbage!


ref: StaticDemoDSK.zip
     StaticDemo.shk



Jon Bettencourt wrote:
> 
 ....
> Here is the short program I want to compile:
> 
> 10 FOR X = 8192 TO 16383 : R = INT(RND(1)*256) : POKE X,R : NEXT X
> 
> It fills page 1 of Hi-Res graphics with TV static. This happens very
> slowly. I know it can be done faster, after all there is a routine to
> clear the screen.
> 
 ....


     This led to writing a machine code routine to simulate a TV display
when no channel is selected-- i.e. "TV Static". Static Demo includes a
short BASIC program which starts up things up and lets you choose whether
to begin by blanking the screen.

     StaticDemoDSK.zip is a bootable DOS 3.3 disk image which runs the 
program. There is a listing of the machine code routine in a Text file
on the disk.

     StaticDemo.shk is a ShrinkIt file with the program files and listing of
the machine code routine in a Text file.




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