If there is enough RAM then could add an extra character row to the bottom of the screen for the player & opponent health bars and time left messages etc.
Decided to give it a go. Now 25 character rows with the last row as a status line. Annoyingly the screen size is not a whole page but have aligned the screen buffer start to nearest page.
If there is enough RAM then could add an extra character row to the bottom of the screen for the player & opponent health bars and time left messages etc.
Need extra 640 bytes in each buffer.