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Hi, I've looked at several sprite editors, & some don't give enough data , like 32x32 should be 1024 bytes of hex color... and I can keep looking, or ask what everyone else is using ? so far I've tried hyperpixel.com and spritemate.. I know there is a sprite editor someone is working on~ They a...

I've been using microcomputers for nearly fifty years. I owned several different American 8-bit computers during those early days. I first learned BASIC on a PET 2001 with the terrible keyboard and built-in datasette. I regret letting go of some of the 8-bit systems I used to own (I have none now, ...

Actually after a nudge on the discord, I tried making a SPRITE based version as well. I didn't fully finish it but it actually was simpler to write than this tile based one. I was drafting up a game idea, and being able to use a sprite as a bitmap canvas seems like it'd be really powerful. I was go...

I waited over a minute and all I got was "Preparing". I'm sorry about that. I recommend you download it and run it on the Desktop Emulator then. TRYIT NOW seems to be very fussy about large downloads. I can't fix that :( I think load time is actually over 1 minute and maybe closer to 2 so...

Posted First Lensman by E.E. " Doc " Smith another Scifi Classic VOLUME CONTROL, TOP POST https://cx16forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34516#p34516 FIRST LENSMAN https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFzq06j3m51uUSB5WiuJXYE_TjU0E1T/view?usp=drive_link I have room for 1 more book on my current G...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


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SAVE has a couple of shortcomings. One of them is the inability to save from VRAM, but another is the inability to save from banked RAM. That is, when you LOAD to banked RAM, it automatically handles wrapping from $BFFF to $A000 and increasing the RAM bank. SAVE doesn't have any knowledge of banked...

I don't know about the rest of the memory. But somewhere around r45 they did start initializing the Palette Ram on boot so those should be reliable. (512 bytes starting at 1:$FA00) I thought so too, I double checked, and it does, so that's not the issue. The problem seems to be simpler: the monitor...

When you READ from VERA 1:F9C0..1:FFFF, you don't get the contents of the register, but rather the last byte written to that address by the CPU . On a cold boot, those values are unpredictable even if the registers themselves are initialized. This information comes from here , the VERA chapter of t...

Asking on Discord can yield faster responses, but if those questions and answers don't make their way back here, then nobody else will benefit from the knowledge. It's kinda like if I ask a question and someone replies with "I sent a PM", and then that's the end of the discussion. It help...