                         Graphics



This program is a programmer's utility as well as a lot of

fun. It enables you to make up user defined graphics

characters in a graphic and interactive way.

  Together with the upper and lower case character set,

numbers and symbols, the Spectrum also allows you to

generate your own graphics characters. Each character is

made up of an eight by eight grid of dots. When the program

is run it displays on the left an enlarged version of a

graphics character. Two cursor arrows may be moved by the

use of the cursor movement keys, to point to one of the 64

pixels within the character. Pressing 1 will turn in into

a foreground pixel (white) while pressing 0 will result in

a red background element.

  On the right is a display of 5x5 character positions

under which appears the lifesize version of the graphics

character that you are working on.

  Pressing P will enable you to print the current character

into the display area, you will be asked for horizontal and

vertical coordinates. This is especially useful for build-

ing up larger user defined shapes by stacking several

characters together.

  Pressing N will enable you to start designing a different

character. There are 21 in all, labeled A through to U but

the program uses the last 4 to draw the cursor arrows,

leaving 17, A-Q.

  Pressing C will clear the display area.

  Pressing S will save your user defined characters onto

tape. They may be reloaded with the command 'LOAD

"graphics"CODE' which will only load the user defined

graphics and will not upset any of the program or variables

in the computer.