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  • 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 ... standard speccy character set in the rom, but you could poke a different ... point to a user defined character set in RAM if you wanted ...
    Neil^P Neil^P August 2004 Games
  • 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
  • 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
  • Difficult to find upper RAM fault.I've recently repaired an issue 3B 48K Spectrum that had a tricky to diagnose upper RAM fault, so I thought I'd post a report of what I found here. …

    ... !) and I gave it a set of new electrolytic capacitors.
    character set) characters scattered about. Leaving it ... of RAM, I used POKE to set it to various values and ... P-RAMT system variable is set to the address below the ...
    Zorn Zorn April 2012 Hardware
  • Laser Squad cheats and mods requestBefore anyone (or Grussu) says "Why would you spoil such a great game with cheats?", I'll just say "Because it's fun". :-P I'm feeling like doing a …

    ... the A.I. handles this character if he can't fire ... already destroyed. Maybe a POKE to set his ammo to zero?
    set. What would be needed to ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2012 Games
  • 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…

    ...
    - Loaded in the ZX80 character set (which I'd saved ages ... rows I could have used POKE 23606 to shift them ... was done, with a POKE of the display file where ... character sets on the BASIC editor, I've had to POKE ... on the stack, and POKE 23607,60 at the end ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 a similar manner ... /> And you can POKE it.

    POKE bankID,address,value - ... you want to redefine the character set itself, you need to ... extracting each bit before we POKE.

    Here it ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... would involve redefining the character set. So, what I'm ... character set of my own, again using POKE 23606,0: POKE ... successfully saved the Defender character set as machine code: on ... which defines a new character set character by character, just by INPUTting ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 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…

    ... />
    Here's the new character set, in BASIC form.

    character square are ignored. In this character set, it's ... right, a simple switch from POKE n,c in line 9060 ... to POKE n,4*c will do ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... also aware of POKE 23607,60 to set the default character set, as I ... upwards, so POKE 23607,249 reverts to the new character set. Anything else ... through. POKE 23606,8 shows a standard character set advanced by one character, so ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... POKE 23658,0: REM caps off

    * Different character sets ... br />
    POKE 23618,10: POKE 23619,0 : POKE 23620,2

    POKE 23618,10: POKE 23619,2 : POKE 23620,0
    character set when PRINTing, LISTing, etc, ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • SoftRom emulation possible?Hello. Quick question to all emulator developers: How easy would it be to emulate a SoftRom? The mastering utilites for my protection system XLR-8 a…

    ... FOR i = 0 TO 16383 : POKE i, PEEK i : NEXT i ... first byte of the character set,

    POKE 15616,255

    Geoff Geoff October 2005 Development
  • Here Comes the SunHas anyone got a solution for this adventure game, its been doing my head in for ages

    ... late probs but if you Poke 63440,201 once the game ... you then Poke 23606,0: Poke 23607,60 for the default character set, reading ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous November 2005 Games
  • 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…

    ... messy) character set out as DATA statements. You can omit the POKE code ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2006 Development
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... the UDG definitions. You can poke a new start address into ... can also redefine the regular character set by POKEing the address of ... the char set minus 256 into the ... can recognize characters from the character set but not UDGs. Though ATTR ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Development
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... UDG definitions. You can poke a new start address ... also redefine the regular character set by POKEing the address ... of the char set minus 256 into the ... recognize characters from the character set but not UDGs. Though ... restore the original character set?
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2006 Development
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... easy to restore the original character set?[/QUOTE]

    ... .

    Define your character set, either using BASin's graphics ... somewhere high up. Then set CHARS (using the example ... look quite unreadable until you POKE those values back.
    ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Development
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... 9000
    30 POKE 23606,96: POKE 23607,233
    ... a demo of changing the character set. It's easy to ... TO 60767: READ A: POKE F,A: NEXT F: ... that's because the new character data (stored just like ... />
    [code]
    POKE 23606,0: POKE 23607,60
    [/code ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Development
  • List of POKEs and PEEKs/cool memory addressesI was wondering if there was a list of cool memory addresses to POKE and/or PEEK. For example, I know that PEEK 23674 tells you how long a Speccy has…

    ... ].

    Some you can POKE and see the immediate effect ... to do more than just POKE them (e.g. changing CHARS ... point to a user defined character set / UDG set).
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…

    ... />
    The ZX81 has a character-based display, which means that ... in the ZX81 character set.
    So you can POKE 16600,CODE "X ... relate to the ZX Spectrum character set when you do a PRINT ... routine goes through the corresponding character data, one row at a ...
    hldswrth hldswrth May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... address of the spectrum's character set. The type declared for "d_chars ... . To render each character we need to poke 8 UDG values into ... the next UDG byte to poke into the display and "*bmp ... /> [/code]

    First we poke the left half UDG byte ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …

    ... amount of money (initially set to 30000). I thought ... Tipshop already has a POKE for infinite money, but ... try to redo the character set. That way the whole ... Tipshop: Infinite Cash: POKE 49787,42 : POKE 49788,0
    ... times. I found 2 character sets in 49184 and ...
    zxbruno zxbruno August 2007 Sinclair Basic
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