Commodore 128D User Manual page 118

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The work area has the dimensions of 24 characters wide by 21 char
acters tall. Each character position within the work area corres
ponds to 1 pixel within the sprite, since a sprite is 24 pixels wide by \ [
21 pixels tall. While within the work area in SPRDEF mode, you have
several editing commands available to you. Here's a summary of the
commands on the following page: * |
Sprite Definition Mode Command Summary
CLR key—Erases the entire work area LJ
M key—Turns on/off multicolor sprite
CTRL 1-8—Selects sprite foreground color 1-8 - -
C* 1-8—Selects sprite foreground color 9-16 I I
1 key—Sets the pixel at the current cursor location to the
background color
2 key—Sets the pixel at the current cursor location to the J.
foreground color
3 key—Sets the pixel at the current cursor location to .--
multicolor! I I
4 key—Sets the pixel at the current cursor location to
multicolor2
A key—Turns on/off automatic cursor movement \ I
CRSR keys—Moves the cursor ( + ) within the work area
RETURN—moves cursor to the start of the next line
HOME key—Moves cursor to the top left corner of work area, i I
X key—Expands sprite horizontally
Y key—Expands sprite vertically —(
Shift RETURN—Saves sprite from work area and returns to I !
SPRITE NUMBER prompt
C key—copies one sprite to another -- -
STOP key—Turns off displayed sprite and returns to ^J
SPRITE NUMBER prompt without changing the sprite
RETURN key—(at SPRITE NUMBER prompt) Exits —
SPRDEF mode —I
Sprite Creation Procedure in SPRite DEFinition Mode
Here's the general procedure to create a sprite in SPRite DEFinition ]—!
mode:
1. Clear the work area by pressing the shift and CLR/HOME keys at j j
the same time.
2. If you want a multicolor sprite, press the M key and an additional
cursor appears next to the original one. Two cursors appear | f
since multicolor mode actually turns on two pixels for every one
in standard sprite mode. This is why multicolor mode is only half
the horizontal resolution of standard high-res mode. ! I
110 USING C128 MODE—Color, Animation and Sprite Graphics Statements