FASTEXPAND

Syntax

FASTEXPAND adr1,adr2

Location

COMPICT

If a screen which has been compressed and saved with COMPRESS is loaded into memory with LBYTES (for example), this command allows quicker expansion of the screen than would otherwise be possible with EXPAND.

FASTEXPAND also allows you to expand the screen to any address (provided that there is at least 32K of free memory stored there). adr1 is the address where the compressed screen is stored and adr2 the place in RAM where the expanded screen should be moved to.

Example

100 COMPRESS ram1_test_scr
110 a=ALCHP(FLEN(\ram1_test_scr))
120 LBYTES ram1_test_scr,a
130 FASTEXPAND a,SCREEN
140 RECHP a

NOTE

FASTEXPAND will not work on screen resolutions in excess of 512x256 pixels.

CROSS-REFERENCE

COMPRESS, EXPAND.