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Living Type - A Chinese Word Processor

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 5:57 am
by Inkbox


Living Type for the Commander X16




A Chinese Word Processor for the Commander X16 that supports 10,000 Chinese characters.




The program itself is called "HUOZI.PRG" and the resources should be kept in a folder called "huozi" on the SD card or file system.




Huozi is the romanization of 活字, the name given by Bisheng to his 11th century invention of moveable type.




IMPORTANT: The huozi folder and should be kept in the same folder where the Commander X16 emulator is located in order to run properly.




LOADING:




From the home screen of the Commander X16 load the program with




LOAD "HUOZI/HUOZI.PRG"




Followed by




RUN




Once the program is loaded press any key to get past the title screen.




CONTROLS:




To toggle Chinese input press: SHIFT + SPACE




To toggle Command Mode press: CTRL + C




There are 4 commands the program can preform:




1. save




save [filename]




Which saves a binary text file to the huozi folder and [filename] represents your given name to the file




2. load




load [filename]




Which loads a binary text file from the huozi folder and [filename] represents the given name of the file




3. new




new




Which creates a new document for the user (erasing all current data held in memory)




4. color




color [0-9]




Which sets the text color to one of the ten selected colors




Demo




In Command Mode try out




load data



 




To see a text file containing 4800 Chinese Characters




load david




To see some PETSCII art



Fixed a bug that didn't clear the whole file data section of memory when loading in multiple files in a row



Re: Living Type - A Chinese Word Processor

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:43 pm
by Napoleon333
This is confirmed to work according to Inkbox's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFIk8WV-RYQ

So it would be nice to move this post into the "Downloads < Productivity Apps" folder instead of "Downloads < Archive".