got any cool 8x8 programmable character designs?

[vic user]

i took breaks from house work this afternoon, by screwing around making programmable characters in the shapes of spaceraft, and wondered if anybody had some neat designs, or perhaps knew of an archive for them?

the one i am currently thinking of using for a lander is:
data 24,60,60,24,36,126,66,231

one that i think would be good for a side scrolling spaceship is:

data 128,192,102,249,249,102,192,128

chris

[Jeff-20]

This is a really cool topic. I had inteneded to post here, but I never found a good graphic. There are tons of great 8 by 8 graphics in commercial programs and type-in magazine programs.

I am going to work on a few and post them soon!

[CurtisP]

I wrote a quick and dirty javascript character editor.

You can find it here: http://www.neoventures.org/jscripts/chared.html

[6502dude]

I wrote a quick and dirty javascript character editor.

You can find it here: http://www.neoventures.org/jscripts/chared.html

Neat little utility.

I have been creating a custom character set for a character rom this weekend and have been using Excel.

This utiility will save me a bit of time.

I did notice that sometimes after a bit is unselected, the calcualted value remains unchanged.

Cheers

[CurtisP]

I did notice that sometimes after a bit is unselected, the calcualted value remains unchanged.

I was able to reproduce it. I'll see if I can fix it. Hopefully I will be able to add more features.

[Jeff-20]

Bravo! That's a wonderful tool. I would like to have a credited version on the Denial website (I am currently trying to build a website around this board). I am still waiting on my new cable so I can transfer my BASIC character editor. Vic pixels are not quite square; so there's nothing like a real vic.

[CurtisP]

I can easily widen the pixels. The code is all javascript, so you can just save the webpage. I'll let you know when i get the problems fixed.

[CurtisP]

I have fixed the editor. I have been told that it doesn't work with Firefox. I've only tested it in IE6 myself.

Here are my custom characters for a biplane:

Code: Select all

Front   34,85,34,0,34,85,34,0
Right   0,6,192,255,63,6,0,2
Left    0,96,3,255,252,96,0,64

[Thomas Hechelhammer]

I have fixed the editor. I have been told that it doesn't work with Firefox. I've only tested it in IE6 myself.

I've tested the editor under Linux.
Firefox : not working
Konqueror : not working
Epiphany : not working
Opera : working

Seems to be an error with gecko-based browsers.

-- Thomas

[CurtisP]

seems the version of my character editor that is being used here is not my latest version (which I apparently finished some time ago).

the latest version is at http://www.neoventures.org/retroCOMPUTE/chared.html

[CurtisP]

Berzerk Robot:

60,30,255,189,189,189,36,102 (Eye Left)
60,78,255,189,189,189,36,102 (Eye Middle Left)
60,102,255,189,189,189,36,102 (Eye Middle)
60,114,255,189,189,189,36,102 (Eye Middle Right)
60,114,255,189,189,189,36,102 (Eye Right)

Berzerk Person:

24,24,0,60,90,90,24,60

[vic user]

cool!

i find berzerk one of those games that is very addictive.

super amok is really well done on the vic, imo.

chris

[6502dude]

seems the version of my character editor that is being used here is not my latest version (which I apparently finished some time ago).

the latest version is at http://www.neoventures.org/retroCOMPUTE/chared.html

A nice addition to this really great utility would be to also display hex values.

My javascript skills are poorm so I haven't done the tweak myself.

[vic user]

hey CurtisP.

i plugged in the berzerk char. values you supplied, and wow they are bang on!

chris