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  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... can stop dead on any character I choose 99% of ... a single flashing orange character to mark the start/ ... of text and also toggle/set/reset the case.
    ... or corrupt when the character set is non-standard or ... P2 assembler with output mode set to hard-drive.
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …

    ... still need an alpha-numeric character set to handle that. Text in ... is only 6 bytes per character - presumably shaving off the top ... text on pixel rather than character values.

    Custom Print ...
    Turkwel Turkwel November 2010 Games
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... [code]
    ; FASTPRNT.S - Fast character printout
    ; J.G.Harston ... /> ;
    ; On entry, A=character to print
    ; On exit ... CHARS EQU 23606 ; Address of character set
    DFCC EQU 23684 ; ... INC HL ; Step to next character line
    INC D ; ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston November 2010 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... [code]
    ; FASTPRNT.S - Fast character printout
    ; J.G.Harston ... /> ;
    ; On entry, A=character to print
    ; On exit ... CHARS EQU 23606 ; Address of character set
    DFCC EQU 23684 ; ... INC HL ; Step to next character line
    INC D ; ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston November 2010 Development
  • Large graphicsWhats the best way to get large scale graphics? I used to do graphics for my brothers games back in the 80's and used Art-studio then a capture pr…

    ... . Then you can design a character set first containing all those features ...
    joefish joefish November 2010 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 ... also lets you change the character set too - that includes all the ... you decide to redefine the character set, then BASin will display your ...
    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 ...
    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.

    ... . But if you remap the character set as was suggested, SCREEN$ will ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • BASin Problems etc.Hi Folks, Paul has asked me to open this thread to document any outstanding issues that we find within BASin. No guarantees that Paul can/will fix …

    Found another problem. In the online help under Character Set the character against ASCII code 39 is a comma when it should be a apostrophe.

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • VIC-20 MegathreadWasn't the VIC-20 just a top machine? Discuss.

    ... , although you can redefine the character set to get a pixel addressable ...
    Matt_B Matt_B April 2011 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... load of rot. The Spectrum character set is an iconic font if ... -30 years ago and the character font it employs.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2011 Games
  • 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 ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler April 2011 Games
  • 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…

    ... don't hate the Sinclair Character set, I just don't like ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2011 Games
  • 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…

    ... or leave but the Spectrum character set? Love it!!

    It ...
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2011 Games
  • 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…

    ... or leave but the Spectrum character set? Love it!!

    It ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2011 Games
  • 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…

    ... improve on the standard Spectrum character set whilst maintaining some of its ... quirks (or call it ‘character’). That explains why the A ... />
    If I would have set myself the task to draw ... apply if I would have set myself the task to design ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan April 2011 Games
  • 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…

    ... improve on the standard Spectrum character set whilst maintaining some of its ... quirks (or call it ‘character’). That explains why the A ... /> [quote]If I would have set myself the task to draw ... apply if I would have set myself the task to design ...
    chev chev April 2011 Games
  • 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…

    ... can either go with the character set in the ROM or write ...
    jonathan jonathan May 2011 Games
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... routine needs an alternative compressed character set for best results, which you ... routine already includes a modified character set. There's an example of ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... routine needs an alternative compressed character set for best results, which you ... routine already includes a modified character set. There's an example of ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... 768 bytes for their alternate character sets, take 953 bytes and ... does have my much nicer character set :) ).
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... 768 bytes for their alternate character sets, take 953 bytes and ... does have my much nicer character set :) ).[/QUOTE]

    Got the ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... 768 byte character set, the routines work differently so the character set definition rules ... a left-justified character definition.

    The PrintPR set could be ... below shows the original PropSys character definitions from the article displayed ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... 768 byte character set, the routines work differently so the character set definition rules ... a left-justified character definition.

    The PrintPR set could be ... below shows the original PropSys character definitions from the article displayed ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... "width" which takes a normal character set and converts it into a ... PropSys form with each character left justified and the appropriate ... width table from a PropSys character set so that linewrap will work ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... equ 64072 ;address-32 of character widths table
    ch_add: ... the pointer for the last character to print from a$ ...
    The PropSys-format character set (ie. each character left justified with its ... 96 bytes down from the character set, at 64104.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... 64072 ;address-32 of character widths table
    ch_add ... pointer for the last character to print from a ... /> The PropSys-format character set (ie. each character left justified with its ... 96 bytes down from the character set, at 64104.[/QUOTE]
    ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... the old version with its character set then load PropSysATT over the ... space when saved with the character definitions because, as well as ... an unused area between the character set and code.

    Note ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 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. …

    ... a bash at a Chinese character set, not all of them of ...
    R-Tape R-Tape June 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…

    ... load (and use) the complete character set?
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2011 Infoseek database
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