Custom Character calculator program

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:10 pm

Hi, on the main page of DENIAL there is shown sometimes a program that looks like a designer's aid for making custom characters. It has a grid for plotting pixels and then calculates the values for the data statements.

Is there anywhere I can get a program like this that will run on an NTSC VIC-20?

Schlowski · Post by **Schlowski** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:26 pm

Maybe my LCE?

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... .php?t=782

Björg

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:44 pm

Schlowski wrote:Maybe my LCE?

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... .php?t=782

Björg

Oh yeah, that's the one on the main DENIAL page. But I see the programmer is from Germany, which probably means PAL and not useable on a real NTSC VIC-20....

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:04 pm

It's only programs that changes screen position in a stupid way, rely on the raster beam or on exact sound frequencies that are incompatible between PAL/NTSC.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:06 pm

...or that makes use of the NTSC interlace mode...

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:06 pm

...or exact calculation speed

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:54 am

I am just so glad that people are looking at the front page. In celebration, I'm going to add more pics.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:45 am

Boray wrote:...or exact calculation speed

Yeah, but don't PAL VIC-20s have more horizontal character rows than NTSC VICs?

That's why I thought this program would be incompatible: some of the lines of the screen would be off the bottom of my NTSC monitor.

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:07 am

ral-clan wrote:Yeah, but don't PAL VIC-20s have more horizontal character rows than NTSC VICs?

That's why I thought this program would be incompatible: some of the lines of the screen would be off the bottom of my NTSC monitor.

No, only more raster lines, which makes no difference in this case.

Schlowski · Post by **Schlowski** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:55 am

Definately from Germany and PAL, it's from me

But since I do not change anything regarding screen resolution or position it should be no problem at all on NTSC - just tested it on VICE in NTSC and worked very well (as I expected).

So, I'm off for a week so I won't answer any questions but since Greyghost has used LCE a lot I think it is now as flawless as I am able to program

Björg

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:41 pm

ral-clan wrote:Hi, on the main page of DENIAL there is shown sometimes a program that looks like a designer's aid for making custom characters. It has a grid for plotting pixels and then calculates the values for the data statements.

Is there anywhere I can get a program like this that will run on an NTSC VIC-20?

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... .php?t=892

GreyGhost · Post by **GreyGhost** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:10 pm

yep, probably the best one i've used so far.

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