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pico_ripples

by luchak

Cart #pico_ripples-1 | 2024-03-17 | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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A nice little raindrops-on-a-pond type of effect. Though perhaps with more of a shifting rainbow color scheme than most ponds.

Changelog

v1.01: Fixed initial splash height so smaller ripples should be more visible. This, to my eye, adds some pleasing visual variety.

this could be a screensaver, nice!

pico_ripples_mouse

by luchak

Cart #pico_ripples_mouse-0 | 2024-03-17 | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Version with no automatic drops, but with mouse control

Nice.

I think this was a screensaver back in the OG color Mac days. Maybe not part of the OS, maybe it was in After Dark.

It looks like After Dark did have a "Hard Rain" screensaver, although I'm not sure it's what you're thinking of - it looks like more of a line art type of style, with growing circles spawning at random points on the screen.

Swirling this for awhile feels surreal, its fun to write cursive-y looking things quickly and see how readable it is.

Also, I noticed this uses vid(3) and has the same issue I've encountered before using vid(>=3) where clicking in the bottom or right of the screen entering the terminal, its an odd bug and a hindrance for doing mouse-related things at a low resolution.

@Munchkin: Yeah, video mode 3 and 4 have a lot of issues right now, it seems. Screenshots are sized wrong, and programs become basically unusable if you drop below 60fps - flickering gets bad, mouse coordinate reporting gets weird.

@Munchkin: it looks like it's probably mostly better to just draw to a userdata array of the desired size and use sspr() to scale up, rather than switching the video mode.

This looks really nice. I just tried picotron for a little bit and I can't figure out how to download a png cart and load it into picotron. I put the png in the folder opened when I wrote "folder" in the picotron terminal. I can see the file, but when I try "load pico_ripples-1.p64.png" I just get "could not load". Does anyone know how to easily try carts from the forum locally?

@Offler: Thanks! You should be able to run load #pico_ripples (to load the self-playing version) or load #pico_ripples_mouse (to load the mouse version).

Thank you! I have completely missed that that's how you load carts from the bbs. I'm starting to wonder if there are other obvious things I've also missed. It's a really cool cart!