I thought it'd be useful to create some sort of little app that'd help
me create player graphics that wouldn't wear out my 1 and 0 keys. I
think I have, at the expense of my tab and space keys. :^) Somebody
else *has* to have made something similar when making their games, but
since I hadn't heard of it and saw at least one request for this sort of
deal while looking through the logs [for an answer to another
question -- granted the request was from 1998 or so :^D] last week I
thought I'd spend today's free time hacking this up.
It's a Java app, which, apologizes to Robin Harbron if he's still around
(Swing won't be coming to the C=64 soon, I'd imagine), makes it a pretty
xplat app. If anyone is interested in using this app and has trouble
with getting a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) set up, email me and I'll help
if I can. It really is a hack, though, and you could probably rewrite
it in whatever your OS's Visual Basic equivalent is more quickly than I
could explain it all to you... :^)
So without further ado, the URL to the 8k zip file (incl app & readme)
is the following:
http://homepage.mac.com/mactari/mactari/mactool/grpxRad.zip
If you're like me and prefer to see a screengrab before bothering to set
everything up and run it, here's one that's only five times as large as
the zip itself:
http://homepage.mac.com/mactari/mactari/images/plyRad.jpg
Fancy stuff.
Basically it's a limitless number of rows of eight checkboxes that spits
out code like...
;============================
; Player graphic data
;============================
org $XX00
player0data
byte #%10100000
byte #%10001111
...
;============================
; End player graphic data
;============================
... once you're done. Very similar to the VB app that was written to
help you with creating a playfield some time back (I didn't write that
one, but I have the source somewhere on an old drive if you're
interested).
Comments, bugs, etc to this address or rufwork@xxxxxxxxxxx, or even the
list, are appreciated. Hope it's helpful to someone other than myself!
Check the readme to get this running; it's not yet a simple
double-clickable jar file [on OSs that support that kind of thing].
Ruffin Bailey
http://myfreakinname.blogspot.com
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