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  • Character set variableCan anybody help me? I'm trying to find out where the pointer to the ascii character set is. I remember that if you wanted to change the font on the …

    ... the pointer to the ascii character set is.
    I remember that ... spectrum where to find the character set, so that it pointed to ...
    Neil^P Neil^P May 2002 Games
  • Character SetAlright, this may not be the right forum for this question (it does sort of relate to a game which I'm trying to get working properly - long story) -…

    ... is that points to the character set in the ROM?
    Unless ... points to the standard speccy character set in the rom, but you ... point to a user defined character set in RAM if you wanted ...
    Neil^P Neil^P August 2004 Games
  • Speccy character set address in ROM?Hi guys Can anyone tell me where the speccy character set lives in speccy rom, say, starting from the ! (ASCII 33) character? I'm actually writing …

    ... tell me where the speccy character set lives in speccy rom, say ... , starting from the ! (ASCII 33) character?

    I'm actually ... want to use the speccy character set, because it's so much ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills August 2006 Development
  • Dump Sinclair character set to file?Hi guys, I'm working on a version of Manic Miner for the TI-99/4A. It's not a port, as I'm not looking at the original Z80 code, just re-creating th…

    ... like to use the Sinclair character set in the game. Can anyone ... get a dump of the character set? Years ago, I could have ... can't remember where the character set is in the ROM, and ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • How does the Speccy deal with the Character Set?Hi All, Can anyone spare a little time to explain to me the basic Assembly method of how the Speccy interprets and retrieves Characters to print on …

    ... understanding is that the character set is accessed via memory ... bytes beyond that. Each character then (obviously) lies in ... address of each character within the character memory area and ... within inverted commas as 'numeric character code'? For example, 'H ...
    Jagd Tiger Jagd Tiger February 2009 Development
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... horror at the ZX Spectrum character set in the screenshot*...yeah, maybe ... that use the ZX Spectrum character set.

    [edit: I do ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2011 Games
  • Character Set FinderSomething I put together a long time ago, just tarted it up a little bit to make it more usable and added few screenshots and a quick readme.<br><br>…

    ... ://jswmm.co.uk/topic/75-character-set-finder/ (Guest viewable and downloadable ...
    spider spider May 2015 Brand new software
  • How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…

    ... some reading up on how character sets are handled by the ... can copy out the redefined character set. However others like Commando, ... some games use their own character printing routine (putchar?) instead ... any way of finding the character sets other than the ...
    morph morph June 2017 Development
  • easy character sethave a look at this program im working on: http://pasteall.org/pic/1b1bb11e1d1897f3c3f0b3e6c0db26aa im a bit stuck. what i want it to do is rea…

    ... over the original upper case character set. (i think i know how ...
    digital digital May 2019 BASIC
  • Earliest game to use custom character set ?The [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/58040/who-has-got-the-earliest-zx-spectrum-software/"][b]topic here[/b][/url] about early sof…

    ... to use a custom character aka "font" set 0-9 and A ... a full or near full set.

    Given memory space ...
    spider spider November 2020 Games
  • OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…

    ... (as opposed to using SpecBAS, BASin, or BAS2TAP).

    ... lines), DIR (toggle 8-bit character set support), EDIT (edit a ... default ULAplus palette), FORMAT (set the permanent attribute), MOVE ( ... matching UDGs and 8-bit character sets.

    * No ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…

    ... displaying the makeup of each character, the ZX81 BASIC Programming manual ... shows each character, unfortunately it doesn't show ... the makeup of each Character from a Grid perspective (this ...
    CP/M User CP/M User December 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tutorial: Using UDGs in SpecBASSpecBAS is capable of using graphics mode, in a similar manner to the original Spectrum. Like most things though, the extended nature of SPecBAS's ab…

    ... !

    To redefine a character in SpecBAS, you POKE in ... you want to redefine the character set itself, you need to calculate ... />

    [b]Using the BASin UDG editor to create UDGs ... you have created a set of UDGs in BASin's UDG editor ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • BASinI need a matrix of 4096 bytes. I have a file which is identical to the first 512 bytes of the matrix i want, but i don't really want to type each byt…

    ... output the resulting (rather messy) character set out as DATA statements. You ... block to DATA" util in BASin.

    D.

    Dunny Dunny February 2006 Development
  • Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …

    ... to point to your custom character set, set up some sysvars for the ... what it offers.

    BASin's compiler uses ROM routines ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... the original character set?[/QUOTE]

    Fire up BASin, look at ...

    Define your character set, either using BASin's graphics editor, or ... somewhere high up. Then set CHARS (using the example ... how) to point to your set - 256. You can define ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Development
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... a demo of changing the character set. It's easy to do ... copy and paste directly to BASin. Run it. Notice how everything ... - that's because the new character data (stored just like UDGs ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Development
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... to speak of), an extended character set to handle new commands (up ... the next logical step for BASin, in my mind. Work begins ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2006 Emulators
  • Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …

    ... with UDGs or a custom character set. That way, you can store ... way to do this with BASin's SCREEN$ designer at the ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • mea culpa!I have just sent Digital Prawn another entry for CCG 2008 which might shock a few people! It is a program which emulates a Commodore Vic 20 - yes, yo…

    ... that it would work in BASin to allow you to use ... they were doing. The redefinable character set allowed all sorts of tricks ...
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2008 Development
  • BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…

    ... />
    This is because BASin is set to display text using the ... in, you get a different character set :-)

    This affects strings ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Emulators
  • z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…

    ... to them. With BASIN, could you create your own character set (not UDGs ...
    Rickard Rickard September 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…

    ... them. With BASIN, could you create your own character set (not UDGs ... contains the address of the character set, minus 256. Poke this ... 60000 and then put your character set at that address. The ... is the same as the character set in order (space, !, ", # etc ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…

    ... contains the address of the character set, minus 256. [/QUOTE]
    ... and POKE to the correct set before PRINTing during runtime.< ... your listing will use this character set. It's useful for ... I use the BASIN character editor to define character sets for CHAR ...
    Rickard Rickard September 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…

    ... to subtract 65 from the character and multiply by 8 before ... than one character set. And also yes, you can use BASin's Sprite ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • z80 program to BASIN?I have a BASIC program with UDG:s loaded in a z80 snapshot file. I would like to edit the program with Basin, but I wonder what must be done before…

    ... UDGs and import them to Basin. ;)

    [QUOTE=Dunny;382775 ... to subtract 65 from the character and multiply by 8 before ... would place my own new character set at some high memory position ... also yes, you can use BASin's Sprite/Graphic editor to ...
    Rickard Rickard September 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... can customise the entire printable character set (which gives you 96 graphics ... /> is there any way in BASin to assign them in the ...
    olaf olaf January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... make A-U the next set of objects i've drawn ... 500,000 times easier if BASin let me edit all the ... also lets you change the character set too - that includes all the ... you decide to redefine the character set, then BASin will display your new ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... also lets you change the character set too - that includes all the ... you decide to redefine the character set, then BASin will display your new ...
    olaf olaf January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Cyrillic font?Hi All, As part of my next game I'd like to use a 96 character fontset that contains the Cyrillic alphabet. I couldn't find anything in Utilities. …

    ... Dunny if I use the BASIN one?

    I'm ... a bash at a Chinese character set, not all of them of ...
    R-Tape R-Tape June 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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