Scramble (arcade game remake)

[RokCoder]

Well, there were a handful of caveats to dance around but it's up and running with hardware sprites now. I've set your x8 detail sprites as the default. Try setting $LET HARDWARE_SPRITES = 0 and you'll see the difference that it makes!

I've totally disabled the palette switching code when $LET HI_RES = 1 is set. You'll need different batches of sprites for different colours if you want to re-implement that. As you hated the garish colours, you could just repaint the default grey sprites with colours that you like.

Give me a shout if you run across any problems or have any questions.

I gave "scramble-with-options.bas" a try, but it's running absurdly slow - it displays 1 frame maybe every 10 seconds.
However, the display I'm using is only 1370x768, so it might be causing problems?
I can try it with a more capable display later in the week...
Are there any options in the game that might need changing for a smaller display?

Sounds like it's not using hardware sprites for some reason. After the _COPYIMAGE I'm only checking for -1 for an error. Reading the WIKI it sounds like I should be checking for a zero as well. The only thing that comes to mind off the top of my head is that maybe your graphics card doesn't have enough storage for a 1584x2800 sprite sheet (plus the other sprites that are being pushed to it). Maybe try a smaller sheet - x4 the default size rather than x8.

Failing that, maybe one of the other guys on the forum is more familiar with using hardware sprites in qb64. The zip I've uploaded runs smoothly here but crawls like a slug when hardwares_sprites is set to zero.