More than 15 console colors?

I was hoping to make a clone of an Ascii game, but it's not gonna be as cool with just 15 colors to work with. Am I missing something?

You can draw to the GRP with any color using GPUTCHR. Otherwise you're locked to only 15 colors on the console at one time.

You aren't missing anything -- only 15 colors available in console. Like SlackerSnail said, use the graphic page command GPUTCHR.

GPUTCHR 150,100,"HELLO",3,5,RGB(248,144,0) 

This will put HELLO at coordinate (150,100) -- since your top screen is 320x240 that's around the center, 3 times the width and 5 times the height, and in beautiful orange. SB has a bad habit of rounding the RGB to the nearest multiples of 8, so it's a good habit to use 248 instead of 255 for example, in case you want to learn about GSPOIT later.

SB has a bad habit of rounding the RGB to the nearest multiples of 8, so it's a good habit to use 248 instead of 255 for example, in case you want to learn about GSPOIT later.

This is because GRPs are 15-bit color internally. It's assumed SmileBoom made RGB() take 32-bit codes for simplicity.

I'm guessing this feature won't work the console's scroll command though, huh?

Correct. GPUTCHR is a graphic screen command, and since it's a completely different layer than console, all console commands will have no effect. http://smilebasic.com/en/e-manual/32.php Manipulating the graphic screen requires you to learn new commands like GPAGE, GCOPY, GPSET etc. To create the scrolling effect I imagine the FOR loop is required. It'll be far more complicated than SCROLL, but making things like the Star Wars opening crawl is possible. https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAADVHk08-GENg

You can use GCOPY to scroll the screen. EDIT2: GCOPY 0,0,399,239,8,0,0 = SCROLL 1,0 I think EDIT: I think you could use FONTDEF to make orange (and other colored) text, but it would take millions of lines of code. EDIT2: you can use GCOPY on page -1 to edit fonts!

Well, that does look like it would work. I'll give it a shot. The only thing I'm worried about is it being slow to run.

SB is way faster than MKII so I believe it won't bother you, especially if it's just text scrolling.