ColorTILE

ColorTILE v1.37

Copyright (c) 2009 Andrew Owen





Instructions

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ColorTILE a tool for creating data for tile based games using the hi-colour mode

on the Timex machines. The editor requires a Timex 2048 emulator as it relies on

having the normal ROM in place. There is no display code for using the tiles in your own programs yet but feel free to adapt the source code. ColorTILE is

still very kludgy but is slightly more responsive than the Timex Mode 2 Tile

Editor on which it is based. The ColorTILE BASIC listing was compiled using

HiSoft BASIC 128.





Cursors

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5 - left

6 - down

7 - up

8 - right





Editing Mode

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0 - plot

I - rotate Ink value

P - rotatae Paper value

B - toggle Bright value

F - toggle Flash value

T - sTorage (in RAM)

M - horizontal Mirror

V - Vertical flip

N - iNvert

C - Clear tile





Storage Mode

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P - Put

G - Get

B - switch Bank

L - Load from tape

S - Save to tape

X - eXit to editor





File Format

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Data is saved as a 16K file of 256 tiles. Each tile is stored as 32 bytes of bitmap data followed by 32 bytes of attribute data. So if you only want x number of tiles then load in the data and 49152 and save it out again as CODE 49152,x*64.