The issue with the standard autostart behaviour of VICE was annoying enough for me to document the supposed-to-use variant of loading MG picture files in the manual, yes. Please check the date of these posts!beamrider wrote:... surely you didn't expect me to RTFM?Mike wrote:To quote from the manual:
BTW, I just tried the export function, but the button 'Save as MiniPaint...' does not result in any effect. Neither is the previously loaded file updated (judged from the time stamp).
Two other things: First, the spelling of the program name is either all-caps, or MP as shortcut. Not MiniPaint, nor Minipaint (already inconsistently used by you). A minor issue, though.
Second, the bitmap actually uses the characters 16..255, not 0..239. By starting the characters at 16, both 'text screen' and character base can be located at $1000. With the characters starting at 0, you'd have to locate the screen elsewhere, at $1E00 for example. That would still allow for the same resolution, but $1E00 .. $1EEF overlaps with the characters 224..238, requiring us to use the split ranges 0..223 and 239..254 (or 240..255) ... which we wouldn't want.