While Pat McDonald of Frome , Somerset, isn't busy wntmg reviews for AA he enjoys a spot of programming. Listing produces a poster-sized shaded screen-dump You wil need: - an Epson-compatible printer
- at least 32 sheets of contmuous pnnter paper
- 3¾ hours to spare
- any of the Amstrad CPC computers
- a fairly new printer-ribbon
- scissors and stickytape
The program prints a shaded picture of the screen contents lts dimensions are four down by eight across. Make sure your printer has a newish ribbon; otherwise you'll get rough results. Make doubly sure you have something to get on with while you wait for it to print: it takes almost four hours. The reason it takes so long is that a typical graphics screen on the Amstrad contains 640 x 400 pixels or dots - each pixel gets enlarged to one character in size , a magrification of eight. The program automatically selects NLQ, which results in the printing of over half a million characters. Change mode, select correct colours and load the picture you wish. Then run the listing: MODE 1: INK 0,0: INK 1,4: LOAD"picture", &C000: RUNWhat makes this listing so special is that the program checks the colours that the screen uses and selects, from a palette of 27, the appropriate character. Pictures can be printed from any screen mode. You'll have to separate the 32 pages and stick them together to make the poster, of course. You'll marvel at the results. The pictures are stunning. AA | ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ DOWNLOAD ★ |
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Page créée en 526 millisecondes et consultée 1186 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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