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Black and White View File X16 Forum This is my third "Double PETSCII" demo. But this time around, the colors are gone. It is only black and white. This is a converted PETSCII picture, the trick was to see if with no colors still some nice effects could be done. Besides PETSCII, there are also a few effects. The demo is written in KickC, and the PETSCII editor is once more the alfa version of HyperPetscii. The link to this can be found here: https://hyperpyxel.com/?p=229 Note: It is still pretty unstable and does not work well on a browser in the MAC for some reason. If you cannot run it on an emulator, you can see it on youtube here: https://youtu.be/3x7OieGqQCg Keep cool, and keep it (DOUBLE) PETSCII. Submitter CursorKeys Submitted 06/17/21 Category Demos  

LORES DOUBLE PETSCII DEMO View File What is double PETSCII? What is PETSCII you may ask first. PETSCII is the extended commodore text character set. This character set has been designed in such a way that it would enable simple graphics on the screen. Which would make it easy for would be programmers on the system, to make card games and so on. However easy to use, it is not easy to create very nice graphics with it.... But... This has changed somewhat. If you search for PETSCII art, you see people are trying to get cooler and cooler graphics out of PETSCII. Double Petscii is using the Commander 16's native graphics modes to overlay two layers of PETSCII graphics. This demo is an experiment in how that may be used. Tech info: -It was made with the cc65, in C. -The PETSCII mode used is lores text mode, with two layers. (40x30 chars) -All colors are standard colors. -1 Color is used as a color to be sacrificed for non black transparency, so there are 15 colors to work with, not 16. -Pictures drawn in hyperpetscii petscii online drawing program. https://hyperpyxel.com/?p=229 Submitter CursorKeys Submitted 04/05/21 Category Demos  

Chonky Text in 6502 Assembly View File A little demo of rendering giant text in assembly. It takes the data from the Lower/Upper character set in ROM and renders it in a large, "LCD-style" font. You can use .asciiz in CC65 for letters, or use a zero-terminated array of bytes to reference the character codes, as below (thanks to https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/profile/5-jimmydansbo/ for the character set reference). Submitter gavinhaslehurst Submitted 03/03/21 Category Demos  

Julia Set Assembly Demo View File Here is my work in progress Julia Set demo! I wrote this in BASIC a couple of weeks ago when starting out on the Commander X16 journey. Since then, I have been trying to learn 6502 assembler. This is the result so far! After wrestling with floating point arithmetic (see my other posts!) I have finally managed to get something working. At the moment, the output is PETSCII, but all being well there will be a graphical version of this in the pipeline. Feel free to muck about with the code. It's probably not written very well, but I have only been doing this for a couple of weeks (and despite being badly written, it's much faster than the BASIC version!) Many thanks to all the experienced forum users who commented on my previous posts to help guide me through this process, as well as the many YouTubers who posted tutorials about how to program the 6502. Watch this space for updates! Some things you can poke around in to change the parameters: POKE $0D30, X -- change the REAL component (this is passed as an integer but can be divided by ten a number of times to achieve smaller numbers - see below) POKE $0D36, X -- the number of times to divide the REAL component by 10 (in order to get around the lack of FIN in the Kernal at present) POKE $0D34, $00 -- make the REAL component positive POKE $0D34, $FF -- make the REAL component negative POKE $0D32, X -- change the IMAG component (this is passed as an integer but can be divided by ten a number of times to achieve smaller numbers - see below) POKE $0D37, X -- the number of times to divide the IMAG component by 10 (in order to get around the lack of FIN in the Kernal at present) POKE $0D35, $00 -- make the IMAG component positive POKE $0D35, $FF -- make the IMAG component negative Submitter gavinhaslehurst Submitted 01/17/21 Category Demos  

Just a thought I've had: I'm currently developing on Windows 10, and if I were either a contributor to a github project or using modern tools, I'd benefit from access to the X16's PETSCII Keyboard plugged into the computer while coding or developing. Would this be possible under the current design? Would it require special drivers or application? I believe a lot of hardship can be eliminated by allowing the keyboard to work on modern systems in any case. And with less hardship, more software. Example: Plug in the X16's Keyboard into my W10 System <Punch The Keys, For Gods' Sake!> Get PETSCII Characters just like I would natively.

Scary Forest View File You are lost in the Scary Forest. Work your way to the edge to escape, and defeat monsters to gain points. You can defeat them by your sword, your wits, or your feet (by running). But beware... some monsters are smart, some are strong, and some are fast. Good luck! Submitter rje Submitted 08/12/20 Category Games