Challenge....

[relsoft]

make a 9 line screen saver

;*)


Colon joined lines are not permited.

Call Absolute and Call Interrupt are not permitted.

Basically same as the old QB45 contest...


Yay!!! First post!!!!

[Agamemnus]

..

[Glenn]

CLS
WHILE INKEY$ = ""
WEND
END

[relsoft]

CLS
WHILE INKEY$ = ""
WEND
END

*Points handgun to Glenn.....

Anyways, here was my entry into the 7 line qb screen saver contest about 2 years ago. Third place.....

Code:

1 SCREEN 13
2 LOCATE 25, 1
3 S = S MOD 360 + 2
4 DRAW "ta=" + VARPTR$(S) + "C" + STR$(S \ 2) + "bm 160,98 E40 R30 F40 G40 L30 H40 H40 L30 G40 F40 R30 E40 H30 U33 E30 F30 D33 G30 G30 D33 F30 E30 U33 H30"
5 PRINT
6 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN GOTO 3
7 END

[Glenn]

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[Anonymous]

OH! DRAW!!! I can decrease my line size by a little with that!! But then it gets REALLY complicated.

[Agamemnus]

(last edited -- Jan. 31, 2003)

9 Lines, with exit condition AND a wait parameter!!

Code:

1 SCREEN 7
2 RANDOMIZE TIMER
3 IF I% = 0 THEN tri$ = CHR$(1) + CHR$(INT(RND * 142) + 16) + CHR$(INT(RND * 90) + 10) + CHR$(INT(RND * 35) + 15) + CHR$(INT(RND * 14) + 1) + CHR$(1) ELSE IF LEN(tri$) > 5 THEN MID$(tri$, 6, 1) = CHR$(0)' + CHR$(INT(RND * 15))
4 wait1# = wait1# + 1
5 IF LEN(tri$) > 5 THEN IF wait1# < ASC(MID$(tri$, 6, 1)) * 30000 THEN GOTO 4 ELSE wait1# = 0
6 IF I% = ASC(MID$(tri$, 4, 1)) THEN I% = 0 ELSE I% = I% + 1
7 IF I% = CINT(ASC(MID$(tri$, 4, 1)) * ASC(MID$(tri$, 1, 1)) / 8) THEN tri$ = CHR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 1, 1)) + 1) + MID$(tri$, 2, 3) + CHR$(15 - ASC(MID$(tri$, 5, 1)))
8 DRAW "BM" + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 2, 1)) + 4) + "," + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 3, 1)) * 3 - 3 - j%) + "P0,15" + "C" + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 5, 1)) * (1 - (I% = 0) * -1)) + "BM" + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 2, 1)) * 2) + "," + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 3, 1)) * 2 - j%)  _
+ "E" + STR$(I%) + "C" + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 5, 1)) * (1 - (I% = 0) * -1)) + "BM" + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 2, 1)) * 2) + "," + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 3, 1)) * 2 - j%) + "BLR" + STR$(I% * 2 + 1) + "C" + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 5, 1)) * (1 - (I% = 0) * -1)) +  _
"BM" + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 2, 1)) * 2 + I%) + "," + STR$(ASC(MID$(tri$, 3, 1)) * 2 - I% - j%) + "F" + STR$(I%)
9 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN GOTO 3 ELSE PRINT "By Agamemnus! Email me at:"; SPACE$(40); "Warlordagamemnus@aol.com"

[BlueKeyboard]

Here's my "amazing" screensaver :

Code:

SCREEN 13
DO
FOR A% = 0 TO 359
PSET (COS(A% * 3.1415 / 180) * R% + 160, SIN(A% * 3.1415 / 180) * R% + 100), A% + C%
NEXT
WAIT &H3DA, 8
C% = C% + 1
R% = INT(RND * 100)
LOOP

[Dav]

Worked on one for hours today, but just couldn't get it under 10 lines, so here's one I already had that made it to 9 lines that I'll post instead.

It's just your basic 3D balls filling up the screen 'till a keypress...

Code:

1  SCREEN 13
2  clr% = 16
3  x% = RND * 320
4  y% = RND * 200
5  FOR z% = (RND * 15 + 1) TO 1 STEP -1
6      CIRCLE (x%, y%), z%, clr%
7      IF INKEY$ = "" THEN PAINT (x%, y%), clr% ELSE END
8      IF z% = 1 THEN GOTO 2 ELSE clr% = clr% + 1
9  NEXT

- Dav

[Agamemnus]

Cool screensaver. Putting the variables in a string can save you at least 2 lines of code.

Interesting screensaver Keyboard. But no exit condition?