CIRCLES

by Darrell Smith



If you added up all the time you've spent waiting for your Spectrum to

draw circles you'd probably have enough for a long weekend in Margate

(although watching the circles would be eminently more satisfying).

Darrell Smith has set out to address this problem with his alternative

circle-drawing routine which does the job a whole lot faster. Circles

now just sort of 'appear', which means you can use them for purposes

you'd never previously have bothered with. (Actually I think a similar

program appeared in Pitstop ages ago, but I couldn't find it and

neither, presumably, will you.)



To get it going, type in the Basic (which is mostly a demo and could

therefore be discarded) and save it by doing SAVE "Circles" LINE 1035.

Then, using the Hex Loader, type in the Hex and save it as "CIRCLE

M/C". Reload the whole thing run it and watch the demo.



To draw you own circles...

POKE 56001, x co-ordinate

POKE 56008, y co-ordinate

POKE 56015, radius

and then RANDOMIZE USR 56000.