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For my method, I made 120 different sprites that used the top half of the screen as a sprite sheet, then made them all move in a sine wave.
It's a number that you use to refer to a specific sprite. For example:
SPSET 0,1 'Make an orange with ID of 0
SPSET 1,0 'Make a strawberry with ID of 1
SPCOLOR 1,RGB(0,255,0) 'Make strawberry green (ew)
SPSCALE 0,2,2 'Make orange double the size
They do introduce the concepts of programming, so they do help a lot. (I started off on Scratch)
Anyway, try these commands:
PRINT "[text here]"
This puts [text here] onto the screen.
LOCATE 2,5
This makes the next PRINT show at x coordinate 2, y coordinate 5 (the text screen is 50x30).
CLS
This clears the screen of all text and resets LOCATE.
12Me21 told how to make arrays, so I'll explain them.
Arrays are special variables that can hold more than one value. There are 3 types of arrays that can each hold things in up to four dimensions. (you'll mostly use the first 2)
The integer array holds numbers but can't store decimals, the real array holds numbers that can have decimals, and the string array that can hold text.