Using Petmate to Create Menus in Basic Program Help
Hey commodore people!
So I'm hoping to get some advice on programming on the C64. What I am trying to do is use the program Petmate (its a PETSCII art maker) to make menus for my programs setting them up as a seq files and load from the disk. However the problem I keep running into is that the load time to draw the image are painfully slow. The best I have been able to accomplish after exporting it to basic and running it through BLITZ is just shy of 10 seconds to draw the screen. I could be wrong, but i don' think the added time is from the read speeds of the disk drive. admittedly most of my testing has been in vice as that is where I do most of my experimental work to save time.
I am beginning to wonder if i am on a fool's errand now and if Petmate dosn't export files in a way to quickly draw. Any advice would be welcome, or other programs, or methods, would love to see what other tricks people might have.
Thanks,