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2017-10-15 17:21
Smasher

Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 510
Event id #2643 : Plain PETSCII Graphics Competition 2017

question for the organizers:
in wild petscii compo you say it's allowed to use ECM. but with ECM only the first 64 chars are useable, so basically only letters and numbers. that sux.
so is it possible to pick up any chars you like from the CBM font and copy them into a new charset in the first 64 positions? or that's against all the rules on Earth?
2017-10-15 18:13
Cruzer

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048
Yeah, that would be quite nice if that was allowed, since it would open up a lot of possibilities for effects.
2017-10-15 18:24
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5007
just dont call it plain petscii please.
2017-10-15 18:57
Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2804
What is "plain" PETSCII then? I haven't heard that term before. :)

But yes, ECM with copied chars surely isn't "plain". :D
2017-10-15 19:01
Cruzer

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048
Plain enough for me if the char gfx isn't changed at all.
2017-10-15 19:34
lft

Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 369
Maybe "Extended PETSCII"? Since ECM stands for Extended Color Mode according to the Programmer's Reference Guide.
2017-10-15 20:17
Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2804
Not sure if that's all a bit too artificial. If there are different background colours AND copied chars, why not have something like PETSCII copied to a hires bitmap? So you can pick any of the 256 ROM characters and have arbitrary background colours per character.
2017-10-15 20:26
Smasher

Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 510
so today we invented PEETSCII and HIRETSCII. perhaps it's really too much for a single day :)
2017-10-15 21:00
Cruzer

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1048
I think the line should be drawn with SWAPSCII, since it's char mode just like PLAINSCII, just with the char positions swapped. BITMAPSCII is a whole another mode. What's next - SPRITESCII?
2017-10-15 21:03
Smasher

Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 510
Quote: I think the line should be drawn with SWAPSCII, since it's char mode just like PLAINSCII, just with the char positions swapped. BITMAPSCII is a whole another mode. What's next - SPRITESCII?

JEEESUSCII!
2017-10-15 21:35
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11088
Quote:
What is "plain" PETSCII then?

whatever you can put into a SEQ file and then display on a BBS. (this implies $d021=0)
 
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