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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 count the first 'headerless' load as that was slightly surprising ... 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
  • A tidy loader for minigamesThe minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code] The loader must be included in the b…

    ... loaders like
    [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code]
    character set that takes a single numeric ... argument is [b]INK[/b], character 217. Here are all the ...
    ajmoss ajmoss June 2010 Development
  • 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…

    ... lines), DIR (toggle 8-bit character set support), EDIT (edit a BASIC ... the default ULAplus palette), FORMAT (set the permanent attribute), MOVE ( ... command. This enables you to load a ULAplus screen as 6 ... matching UDGs and 8-bit character sets.

    * No ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…

    ... height of chars in that character set.

    z88dk ... reached without slicing any single character.

    All ... information on a single character from the current character set.

    load fonts from disk or network ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Announcements
  • Repton ManiaHi all, I am the creator, and look after, the Repton Resource Page ([url]www.reptonresourcepage.co.uk[/url]). For the site, I have written a freely …

    ... Windows utility which will load in and display Repton ... features the ability to load and display the maps ... )
    0x07900 0x8B00 Character set graphics (each character is 5 bytes = ... "
    0x10D2C 0x802C Character set graphics (each character is 5 bytes = ...
    geraldholdsworth geraldholdsworth June 2014 Games
  • New from Paul Farrow, the ZXC4This is exciting stuff!!!! Sorry if ive stepped on your toes Paul, wanted people to hear about it!!! [QUOTE]Hi I?m happy to announce the release o…

    ... the need to shift the character set bitmaps down in memory (hence ... supports the interception of the LOAD and SAVE routines in the ... cassette player/recorder, or to load and save via RS232. This ... menu to select the save/load channels, and the ZX Tape ...
    Macc Macc July 2014 Hardware
  • 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
  • "ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…

    ... br /> - Loaded in the ZX80 character set (which I'd saved ages ... a program to make defining character sets really easy).
    ... could use the standard character set, but I thought I ... , all with the LOAD command for the character set modified appropriately!
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • "La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…

    ... uppercase "W" defined in the character set, and it made things a ... /> - All the messages such as "Load saved game" and "You have ... hours;
    - Define a "w" character in the large parchment text ...
    Ed Ed February 2003 Games
  • Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …

    ... 3
    Character sets 1
    Default character set 1
    ... SAVE 26 Verb
    LOAD 27 Verb
    RAMSA ... _ AT 29
    SET 0
    GOTO 69 ...
    BadBeard BadBeard March 2003 Games
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... undos ), s save, l load, c load saved screens then compress/compile ... custom Graphics using the regular Character set ( similat to font creator ) which ... , laoding screens and how to load the compressed compiled screens, usiing ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Development
  • Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…

    ... which would involve redefining the character set. So, what I'm ... successfully saved the Defender character set as machine code: on ... which defines a new character set character by character, just by INPUTting ... new 6x8 character set, would I have to load in the ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • .P filesAs this appears to be the standard for ZX81 files for the near future can anybody point me to the required tools and if possible a tutorial on how to…

    ... the text entered into the LOAD "XXXX" command into the hosts ... it doesn't overcome the character set differences or keep gap information ...
    MikeW MikeW January 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... a "CLEAR 64788" and then load it in as a binary ... it works, printing the Sinclair character set all squashed together. You can ... system variable at your own character set to get better looking 42 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2004 Development
  • The Perils Of WillySorry if this is a really obvious question, but did anyone ever convert the V20 Perils of Willy to the Speccy?

    1. Firstly, take a load of the RAM chips out ... .

    2. Redefine the character set to a chunky version, so ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... br />
    * Different character sets and UDG sets
    set is stored in the ... points to the right character set when PRINTing, LISTing, etc ... last character in the message having bit 7 set to ... 1: This bit being set to a one indicates that ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • 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…

    Yes, there is.

    LOAD "c:mypathmyfile" CODE 32000
    < ... output the resulting (rather messy) character set out as DATA statements. You ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... copy pointers to the ROM character set into the tile array. If ... . You may want to load a font and associated tile ... is possible you want to load the "sp1_update" array from ... of time for occluding LOAD sprites as LOAD sprites obliterate everything underneath ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... only worked with the basic character set and not UDGs, which made ... /> Still, I suppose there's LOAD "" SCREEN$ so it's not ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... only worked with the basic character set and not UDGs, which made ... /> Still, I suppose there's LOAD "" SCREEN$ so it's not ...
    Bethan Bethan May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Monitor/debugger that doesn't use the Speccy ROM?Was there ever a Spectrum monitor/debugger released that didn't use the ROM, for key input and character output routines? The reason I ask is that i…

    ... and a copy of the character set (which it does access, ... keyboard routines, BREAK detection, character set and scrolling routine. With all ... :
    [LIST=1]
    [*]Load in the Picturesque Monitor from ... .1)
    [*]Load the hack, with [B]LOAD "pichack" CODE ( ...
    glancaster glancaster February 2007 Development
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