T.BITS

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000008D0: D4 D3 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |..              |
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000008F0: CF D2 C9 DA C5 D2 2E D3  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |........        |
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00000910: 2A 2A 2A 2A 20 C5 4E 44  20 4F 46 20 D4 45 58 54  |**** .ND OF .EXT|
00000920: 20 2A 2A 2A 2A 0D                                 | ****.          |

..^U:ZERO.        BITS: A C64 "COLORIZER
"..             BY SCOTT RESH..   WE NEE
DED AN M-L PROGRAM THAT WOULD.MAKE A CER
TAIN CHARACTER ON THE SCREEN.A CERTAIN C
OLOR.  ALL A'S WOULD BE.BLUE, ALL B'S WO
ULD BE GREEN, ETC....THE PROGRAM MUST BE
 EASY TO USE AND.FAST...    COLORIZER IS
 A NICE, SMALL PROGRAM.THAT DOES THE JOB
.  COLORIZER LOADS.INTO THE CASSETTE BUF
FER...WE RECOMMEND THIS LOAD METHOD:..  
POKE147,0:SYS57812"COLORIZER",8,1:.  SYS
62631..    THE COLORIZER PROCESS IS SIMP
LE..INITIALIZE TWO POINTERS.  ONE TO THE
.START OF SCREEN MEMORY AND ANOTHER.TO T
HE START OF COLOR MEMORY.  FETCH.THE CHA
RACTER AT THE CURRENT SCREEN.POINTER.  D
OES IT MATCH ANY OF THE.THREE CHARACTERS
 THAT WE ARE LOOKING.FOR?  IF YES, FETCH
 THE CORRESPONDING.COLOR VALUE AND PUT I
T INTO COLOR.MEMORY.  IF NO MATCH, DO NO
THING...    INCREMENT BOTH POINTERS BY 1
..HAVE WE TESTED ALL 1,000 SCREEN.LOCATI
ONS?  YES, RETURN TO BASIC.  NO,.GO BACK
 AND FETCH THE NEXT CHARACTER.....    HO
W TO USE COLORIZER.  COLORIZER.LOOKS FOR
 'SCREEN CODES', NOT ASCII.CODES.  TO FI
ND THE SCREEN VALUE FOR.A LOWERCASE 'B',
 ENTER AND RUN THE.FOLLOWING PROGRAM:.. 
   100 PRINT CHR$(147);"B".    110 PRINT
 "THE SCREEN CODE IS";.          PEEK(10
24)..    THE SCREEN CODE SHOULD BE A 2..
COLORIZER NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT SCREEN.CODE
S TO LOOK FOR AND THE DESIRED.COLOR OF T
HAT CHARACTER.  COLORIZER.CURRENTLY LOOK
S FOR 3 SCREEN CODES..THESE 3 CODES MUST
 BE STORED IN.LOCATIONS 828, 829, AND 83
0.  THE.COLOR DATA MUST BE STORED IN LOC
ATIONS.831, 832, AND 833...    NOW FOR A
 BASIC PROGRAM THAT USES.COLORIZER.  CHO
OSE RUN IT FROM OUR.MENU WHICH LOADS AND
 RUNS THE PROGRAM.'BITS'.  THE LETTERS A
, B AND C ARE.NOW 'GLOWING'.  CHANGE ANY
 OF THE.NUMBERS POKED INTO 828 THROUGH 8
33.AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS...    WE USED TH
IS TECHNIQUE IN THE GAME.SPHEROID, FOUND
 IN THE MAZEWARE FOLDER.OF THIS ISSUE.  
ORIGINALLY JOHNNY.HARRIS HAD 4-BLOCK FIL
ES FOR EACH.SCREEN'S COLOR MEMORY.  WE N
EEDED THE.DISK SPACE AND COLORIZER ALLOW
ED US.TO SAVE OVER 40 BLOCKS......    SO
 IF YOU FEEL TEMPTED TO SAVE A.SEPARATE 
4-BLOCK COLOR MEMORY FILE.FOR A SCREEN T
RY COLORIZER.  IT CAN.REALLY HELP FREE U
P DISK SPACE AND.CUT DOWN ON LOADING TIM
E.  THE SOURCE.CODE IS ON THE DISK AS TH
E FILE."COLORIZER.S"...DISK FILES THIS P
ROGRAM USES:..BITS               COLORIZ
ER.O.COLORIZER.S        T.BITS..        
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