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I must not be making myself clear. For my game to work, I need to be able to draw a tile partially on screen and partially off screen. That way it can scroll smoothly (with the character constantly staying in the middle of the screen.) I know how BSAVE and BLOAD work and how to access pictures from ...

:? Yeah...I know I get an error. That's why I asked how there was a way to do it without getting one. The reason why I want to PUT things off screen is because its a smooth scrolling map. So that while its scrolling, I want half of a tile to be visible while half of it isn't, that way it can scroll ...

Hello everyone, I've been working on a QBasic RPG for quite a few years now. It uses a smooth scrolling map (ie Final Fantasies for the SNES), but the one thing that's always bugged me is that I just can't get it to scroll smooth enough. Right now, my tiles are saved in string files, so that all I h...

I've never taken the time to figure out the background , but the tile is pretty easy. Basically what the tile is is that instead of painting one solid color, you can paint with a pattern. For example: Screen 13 'make a shape DRAW "c4 bm 50, 50 r50f50l50h50" 'create a "tile" TileI...

Hi everyone, Is there a way to use the graphics capabilities of DirectQB and the sound capabilities of DS4QB at the same time? DS4QB relies on the CALL ABSOLUTE, or something similar, feature to work. To get that to work, I need to type /l on the command line. However, DirectQB needs a /ldqb on the ...