SnowFlakes  -  A snowflake pattern generator

by R.A. Swetman

Snowflakes is a short Basic program which will
print random symmetrical snowflake shapes on
your monitor in a variety of chilly colours, and
scroll them on the screen.

The program is listed and described in the Just a Page article in this month's RISC User magazine.

When run, the program
will clear the screen and then, whilst the
screen scrolls downwards, print random
snowflakes alternately in pairs and singly,
giving the impression of falling flakes.

Customising the program
The variables delay% and distance% in line 80
govern the speed at which the flakes fall, and
the distance between them; alter to your own
taste. If you have a high resolution monitor,
you may like to edit line 80 to use mode 26,
which will give a crisper display. If you do this,
you should edit the line to read as
follows:
80 MODE 26:OFF:delay%=2:distance%=16

If you haven't had enough snow in recent weeks,
then this program should keep you happy!

Copyright  RISC User 1996
