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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 …

    ... ascii character set is.
    I remember that if you wanted to change ... font in ram somewhere, then change a 2byte pointer that told ... 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
  • Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…

    ... a very small amount of character data.

    I ... version with a cut down character set consisting of only numbers ... to continually find the current character and a few other ... support for control codes to change character set mid scroll or print without ...
    jamorski jamorski October 2016 Development
  • 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
  • Arkanoid Hack - Your Sinclair Smash TipsRemember that Arkanoid hack in YS Smash Tips that didn't work? It does now... [CODE] 10 REM ARKANOID HACK 20 CLEAR 65535: LET C=1: LET D=23295 …

    ... loader
    ;
    ld hl,patch ; update loader
    ld ($fec3 ... ),hl ; to return to patch
    ;
    ld hl,$ ... character set
    ;
    jp $fea9 ; and call loader
    ;
    patch ... (hl),$5b ; found it, so change block to now
    dec ...
    jp jp December 2011 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 …

    ... is required. The following patch is not sufficient.
    ... ldir ; copy

    ; patch BASIC ROM to prevent overwrites ... br /> ld hl,$0d2c ; prevent character set
    ld (hl),$17 ; being ... />
    ; MicroSource ROM patch (copied to $18fe)

    chev chev March 2007 Emulators
  • Personal Software magazineHere's a list of the type-ins for the issues of the Personal Software magazine already in the WOS archive. (Note: Some listings may have previously …

    ... David Spencer
    40,Alternate Character Set,Dave Hawke
    41- ... Paul Bates
    55-57,Character Change,Paul Matthews
    58- ... 61,Thin Character Generator,SJ Patrick
    ... Choy
    84-86,Graphic Character Transformation,RA Houlton
    ...
    c1541 c1541 February 2010 Support files
  • that "listing variables during runtime" thingWell, I did eventually finish this, but with my meds playing up I don't have much time each day that I can spend at the computer, so it's taken rathe…

    ... the listing routine doesn't change them (so it's best ... block graphics have their own character set, rather than calling $0b38 ... attributes A'
    PRINTA0:;print character A at DE
    * ... once to locate the BLOCK character set.

    Part the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2013 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 …

    ... each)
    0x07900 0x8B00 Character set graphics (each character is 5 bytes = 8x5px ... Null data
    0x0C44C unknown - patch?
    0x0CCB6 Null data
    0x10D2C 0x802C Character set graphics (each character is 5 bytes = 8x5px ...
    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 ... version of this utility. This change applies to ZXC1, ZXC2 and ...
    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
  • 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…

    ... br />
    To redefine a character in SpecBAS, you POKE in ... UDG function. Specify a single character as a parameter, and it ... you want to redefine the character set itself, you need to calculate ... />
    so to redefine "a", change line 10 to:

    Dunny Dunny May 2018 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 ... hours;
    - Define a "w" character in the large parchment text ... an uppercase "I", too);
    - Change the messages such as "Welcome ...
    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
    ... a rough and barren patch of wasteland. To ... _ AT 29
    SET 0
    GOTO 69 ...
    BadBeard BadBeard March 2003 Games
  • Long Lost ListingsWay back in the day when I still had those three issues of Sinclair Programs (which got lost in the Great House Move of three years ago DAMNDAMNDAMN)…

    ... in it which redefines the character set grid to 6x8 squares, 22 ... TC2048 which is a seemless patch on Spectrum streams (remember the ... allows printing in different width character sets. I used it once ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... mode automaticly when a 256 set of snapshot/GFX/CFG/etc ... standard character set doesn't display. Do I have to patch the actual ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2004 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... mode automaticly when a 256 set of snapshot/GFX/CFG/etc ... standard character set doesn't display. Do I have to patch the actual ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2004 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... caps off

    * Different character sets and UDG sets
    character set when PRINTing, LISTing, etc, is ... the last character in the message having bit 7 set to a ... need arises, eg. a mode change made normally from the keyboard ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 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…

    ... array so that the ROM character set is used by default ... copy pointers to the ROM character set into the tile array. If ... rel_col parameters cause a relative change in position in characters; ... rel_hrot parameters cause a relative change in position measured in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    ... program again your graphic will change to the new version.
    character set. It's easy to do ... - 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…

    ... and a copy of the character set (which it does access, ... replacement keyboard routines, BREAK detection, character set and scrolling routine. With all ... put a copy of the patch up at:
    [URL=" ...
    [/LIST]

    The patch uses an extra 1526 bytes ...
    glancaster glancaster February 2007 Development
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... the hardware just requires you change the X and Y coordinate ... lets you use a definable character set that is drawn by hardware ... to know how powerful printable character sets can be look at ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • 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 ... high score chart they'll change to the appropriate text but ...
    StuBruise StuBruise May 2007 Games
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