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  • 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 ... fine and I can copy out the redefined character set. However others like ... some games use their own character printing routine (putchar?) instead ... any way of finding the character sets other than the old ...
    morph morph June 2017 Development
  • 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
  • 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
  • Currah MicroSource emulationIt appears to be impossible to emualte the MicroSource in software on the ZX Spectrum SE as hardware polling is required. The following patch is not …

    ... 2000 ; length
    ldir ; copy

    ; emulate polling ... br /> ld hl,$0d2c ; prevent character set
    ld (hl),$17 ; ... 22 ; length
    ldir ; copy

    ; move displaced ... 27 ; length
    ldir ; copy

    ; simulate cold ...
    chev chev March 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... anyway).

    * New commands: COPY (call m/c), DELETE (remove ... lines), DIR (toggle 8-bit character set support), EDIT (edit a BASIC ... for the LDIR block data copy machine code command), ON ERROR ... matching UDGs and 8-bit character sets.

    * No ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 …

    ... an original +3 disc copy of Repton Mania. ... br /> 0x07900 0x8B00 Character set graphics (each character is 5 bytes ... 0x08872 0x9A72 Repton 1 character area (each character is 0x80 = 32x32px ... br /> 0x10D2C 0x802C Character set graphics (each character is 5 bytes ...
    geraldholdsworth geraldholdsworth June 2014 Games
  • Help for beginner with z80Hi chaps, I'm reasonably new with z80, but had a fair amount of experience with 68000, so decided to give a few things a go. One little thing I'm t…

    ... , I get the next character in my message, get ... copy of those 8 bytes using ldi to my own character ... 7 each time, then set the corresponding attribute on or ... ), so figured taking a copy of the bitmap and left ... of the MSB of the character set. Is there a funky ...
    badgyre badgyre February 2015 Development
  • 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
  • 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 …

    ... grab yourself a copy of Unpaws 2.0 ... 3
    Character sets 1
    Default character set 1
    ... _ AT 29
    SET 0
    GOTO 69 ...
    BadBeard BadBeard March 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... program which defines a new character set character by character, just by INPUTting the ... the option to SAVE the character set as machine code when finished ... /> Done it. Anybody want a copy? You might find it useful...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... , anybody wants to have a copy ?

    Q
    < ... have to manually shift the character set by pixel to find out ... get lost ! Once you set the beguinning of the grid ... clear view of the chr set ? I don't know ... , this way you are set and can always see each ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... array so that the ROM character set is used by default by ... bit must be set to copy pointers to the ROM character set into the ... tile array. If it is not set, an ... a sprite character is occluding. If this bit is set, sp1_UpdateNow() ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • What new (ish) ZX game have you played mostJust wondering what games from 2000 on have grabbed you most, I found a lot of TR-Dos games on here last year and was seriously impressed by a little…

    [QUOTE=chop983]Cant stand the character set that god awful compuer/space ... I've still got a copy of.

    Although a ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Games
  • 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 ... ]

    It will just copy and paste directly to BASin ... - that's because the new character data (stored just like UDGs ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... the keyboard and a copy of the character set (which it does access ... replacement keyboard routines, BREAK detection, character set and scrolling routine. With all ... perfectly - I can now set breakpoints in other banks, and ... , I've put a copy of the patch up at ...
    glancaster glancaster February 2007 Development
  • Currah MicroSource emulationIt appears to be impossible to emualte the MicroSource in software on the ZX Spectrum SE as hardware polling is required. The following patch is not …

    ... as requiring access to the character set.

    As such, I ... (particularly a copy of the routine it might set up in stack ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Emulators
  • Bargain BasementAnyone here actually read the full disclaimer at the beginning of Bargain Basement? It's rather strange... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infos…

    ... FOOD LISTS,^A CUTE LITTLE CHARACTER CALLED MONEY WHO IS BOUND ... CUDDLY TOY,^/A SUPERBLY DESIGNED CHARACTER SET,=^TOTALLY DEBUGGED IN EVERY WAZ ... THEN DON'T TRY TO COPY THIS GAME OR WE WILL ...
    StuBruise StuBruise May 2007 Games
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... location of the spectrum's character set. So in this C program ... address of the spectrum's character set. The type declared for " ... changing the location of the character set. On returning to basic all ... /> First up we make a copy of the destination address for ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…

    ... () is fixed so I copy what's generated in my ... initially filled with the default character and colour
    - initialize ... initially comes from the ROM character set, which will probably be ... you probably have a default character set in ROM, modify sp_Initialize ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2007 Development
  • Ripping a fontIs it possible to rip a font from a machine code game using Spin?

    ... boring old
    Sinclair character set, and have marvelled at the ... ground and make a copy of any font from ... the set, and will hopefully display a
    copy of ... the set of your dreams, you can save a copy of ... Assuming you've made a copy of the Basic Loader, ...
    jp jp April 2008 Emulators
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... ROM's character set. We therefore need to include a character set in our ... new ROM. You can copy $3D00-$3FFF ... with the address of our character set.

    After doing ... ROM to $8000 and the character set to $BD00. It then ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... the ROM character set
    [*]There's a hidden "make a copy" routine ... call $04C2 to save a copy of itself on tape :-P ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
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