
Why is Screen 13 so Popular?
Quote:
>> I'm fairly new to programming and I've noticed that a lot of people use
>> Screen 13 and a lot of people tell ME to use it.
>> I would like to know what features SCREEN 13 has that makes it stand out
>> please.
>256 colours
- It's the only build-in screenmode that supports 256 colors without using
external libraries
- It's the fastest of all 256 screenmodes
- 320 x 200 x 8 = 64.000, which is exactly one page of videomemory. If you
have a higher screenmode, you need to switch banks all the time,
making things much more complex.
(Only one page of 64KB videomemory can be accessed at any time)
- You can POKE pixels directly into memory, it doesn't used different pages
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