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Character Definer (Your Computer) | Applications Creation Graphique |
This program is a comprehensive character definer. It is very user-friendly and allows redefinition of characters on the Amstrad CPC-464 micro. As well as the standard "pixel-by-pixel" definition procedure, it also enables the user to:
Pressing R rotates the character by 90 degrees to the right; F inverts all the bits; M produces a vertical mirror image of the character and D allows the reading in of a saved data map for further adaption. Pressing C when the character is complete produces a print out of the data map in both decimal and hexadecimal. At this point the user is given the option of saving the data map to tape, and then whether he wants to rerun the program. Conversion of this program to run on other micros may prove to be difficult. This is due to the fact that it uses a pair of windows on the screen and also that it uses a transparent mode of character printing. Windows are a feature found on only a handful of other home micros and the "transparent" printing is — to my own knowledge — unique to the Amstrad. A stripped-down version of this program can be produced, but it would involve redesigning the screen layout and completely changing the screen-handling routines. Also the Symbol command would have to be replaced with Pokes to define a character. The program allows you to dump the characters you have just defined to tape as a binary file called Char. SYMBOL AFTER 128
In this case, if you say add a disc drive to your system and still want to use characters you defined before getting it: SYMBOL AFTER 128:CLOW = HIMEM + 1 will put the characters into the correct position in memory.
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