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I am not a programmer but I understand what you are saying. Does it mean that the game is programmed in BASIC /?/ when it needs so much time to render the whole frame ..

Great game! About the rewriting of the screen we use for instance for some games a memory buffer so we draw the screen first in that buffer and then move it to the screen. It implies having enough free memory for that purpose and of course that is difficult if the game requires the whole available space. Another option would be an attribute fadeout + fadein so the cut to black is progressive. We use that effect on our Area 51: Roswell Incident game, it could be a nice option and the size in bytes of the fadeout asm is very small. Cheers! :)