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  • What game font did you like?Carrying over the slight venture into game fonts when it was mentioned how some games didn't have their own font in the "What was the first Spectrum …

    ... is not only a different character set with the CHARS system variable ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2008 Games
  • 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…

    ... can't remember where the character set is in the ROM[/QUOTE ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=Mark Wills;280685]I can't remember where the character set is in the ROM[/QUOTE]
    This should do the trick:
    [CODE]
    SAVE "font" CODE 16384-768, 768
    [/CODE]
    Patrik
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... get a dump of the character set? Years ago, I could have ... can't remember where the character set is in the ROM, and ... />
    Here's the whole character set, freshly exported from Spectaculator:
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Help with hi-res 40 column fontI have created a 12x8 pixel font for use with Timex hi-res (Mode 6).

    ... nybble then the byte of character, the other draws the byte ... Timex in that mode each character is in alternate display banks ... /> I'd also assume the character set was stored as 16x8, ie ...
    Jimmy Jimmy June 2008 Development
  • mea culpa!I have just sent Digital Prawn another entry for CCG 2008 which might shock a few people! It is a program which emulates a Commodore Vic 20 - yes, yo…

    ... they were doing. The redefinable character set allowed all sorts of tricks ...
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2008 Development
  • post your preferred 'up-down-left-right-fire' keys redefinefor me, and for some reason it was Emlyn hughes back in the day that got me attatched to this, from then on and to this day I will always redefine my…

    z - left
    x - right
    o - up
    k - down
    p - fire
    space - jump, bomb, change character etc etc...... (this is only after I installed my DK Tronics keyboard with space bar)
    zxspecticle zxspecticle July 2008 Games
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... plots characters to a 42 character screen is at


    The character set stops at lowercase 'z' as ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2008 Development
  • Jimmy's UK101 emulatorThe [url="http://www.mediafire.com/?cmxmzkax9jb"]Compukit UK101 emulator[/url] works best when running on the ZX Spectrum SE.

    ... , 1K video RAM and 2K character set ROM = 21K. This allows me ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... to allocate memory for a character set in RAM. Block copying ... my SPRITES into the character set

    ; set PTR1 to start ... STA PTR1+1

    ; set PTR2 to destination
    LDA ... /> STA WORMTAIL

    ;Set PTR1 to point to screen ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • QL and gamesWell,I am bit off topic but I cannot understand why the QL had no arcade games made for it and if it had, would they be vastly technically superior t…

    ... did manage to find the character set in ROM, but never did ... be the little Scandinavian A character with the loop on the ...
    snigfarp snigfarp September 2008 Hardware
  • QL and gamesWell,I am bit off topic but I cannot understand why the QL had no arcade games made for it and if it had, would they be vastly technically superior t…

    ... did manage to find the character set in ROM, but never did ... be the little Scandinavian A character with the loop on the ... to the location of the character set - however, it was never recommended ...
    rwap rwap September 2008 Hardware
  • Design Design / Crystal ComputingNice post on [URL="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/56e6ebdedc6930ac#"]comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] about [URL="http:…

    ... with corrupted entries in the character set. I'm not sure what ...
    Jimmy Jimmy October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 12-pixel-wide font on 512x192 screenThanks to Geoff I have a working prototype for displaying this font in BASIC. Machine code to follow.

    ... column boundry lies withing the character.[/QUOTE]

    It ... the value of the lowest character (space, 0x20) then multiply ... the base address of the character set data. Multiplying by 8 is ... which bit position a particular character starts on in the ...
    Winston Winston October 2008 Development
  • 16K Rom with RS232 supportHi all, I am looking for a 16K Rom-code (to fit into the speccy) which supports RS232 and Network of IF1. Background: I am using 48K Issue 3 with W…

    ... in Sea Change?[/QUOTE]

    The Sea Change ROM set out to ... , free of that constraint, I set out to see if an ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2008 Hardware
  • "The Earth is flat, and horizontally infinite..."Erm, loony tunes time: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7540427.stm[/URL] and people like that are allowed to vote and drive cars...

    ... that be have time to change the set around.

    Really ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2008 Chit chat
  • "The Earth is flat, and horizontally infinite..."Erm, loony tunes time: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7540427.stm[/URL] and people like that are allowed to vote and drive cars...

    ... that be have time to change the set around.

    Really ...
    guesser guesser November 2008 Chit chat
  • PING:AlvinSince I archive my emails offline I am prone to losing people's email addresses.

    ... by RRCAing bits off the character set byte, then rotating the mask ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2008 Development
  • Rwap well well wellgot this as part of an email today from RWAP it may interest some of you, "Coming Up in 2009: - Replacement Faceplates for the ZX Spectrum…

    ... on the faceplate and only change one set of keywords (eg. the ...
    rwap rwap December 2008 Announcements
  • BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…

    ... /> This is because BASin is set to display text using the ... in, you get a different character set :-)

    This affects strings ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Emulators
  • TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …

    ... /> A BASIC program + CODE (+ UDGs + character set, if need be) [b]can ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2009 Emulators
  • Interrupts - been a while !Not sure if this is the right place for this (1st post on WOS, but been a speccy user since Dec'84 :-o (yes I am that old ! :p) ), But I can't for …

    ... of ROM (which is the character set), but from 0x386e to 0x3cff ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Open82 v2009-01-13 releasedI'm pleased to announce a new release of Open82, the GPL-licenced replacement Spectrum ROM formerly known as OpenZXRom. [url]http://sourceforge.net/…

    ... various ZX81-specific things (the character set in particular), so it's ...
    gasman gasman June 2009 Announcements
  • Open82 v2009-01-13 releasedI'm pleased to announce a new release of Open82, the GPL-licenced replacement Spectrum ROM formerly known as OpenZXRom. [url]http://sourceforge.net/…

    ... various ZX81-specific things (the character set in particular), so it's ...
    chev chev June 2009 Announcements
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... the spectrum manual under Spectrum character set.
    So,
    16, 17 ...
    FrankT FrankT June 2009 Games
  • Firefox 3.5[url=http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/]Now Available[/url] before the official release

    So, with @font-face support, we could create a font file containing the Spectrum character set [note: I've no idea how easy this is] and have web pages displaying proper text as Speccy characters.
    mjwilson mjwilson July 2009 Chit chat
  • +3 Centronics port: How does it work?I've been trying to follow the code with Fuse's debugger and I can't see it writing anywhere except to port 0x1ffd. It also jumps through some fairly…

    ... point in supporting the extended character set as I can't think ...
    chev chev July 2009 Hardware
  • +3 Centronics port: How does it work?I've been trying to follow the code with Fuse's debugger and I can't see it writing anywhere except to port 0x1ffd. It also jumps through some fairly…

    ... point in supporting the extended character set as I can't think ... .[/QUOTE]

    What extended character set do you mean - the SPECTRUM ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2009 Hardware
  • +3 Centronics port: How does it work?I've been trying to follow the code with Fuse's debugger and I can't see it writing anywhere except to port 0x1ffd. It also jumps through some fairly…

    [QUOTE=glancaster;367022]What extended character set do you mean - the SPECTRUM and PLAY tokens?[/QUOTE]

    I mean the characters above 127, since there's no obvious way to print the UDGs etc.
    chev chev July 2009 Hardware
  • So what about ethernet and ZX BASIC?Well, as of about 5 minutes ago, ZX BASIC for the first time properly wrote some packets to the network! OK, so it isn't perhaps 100% what Andrew Ow…

    ... routine and partial UTF-8 character set. Then there's another mandatory ...
    Winston Winston July 2009 Hardware
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