Home Computing Weekly


Grafvic

Categories: Review: Software
Author: A.W.
Publisher: Mossoft
Machine: Commodore Vic 20

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #22

This is a character designing package for the unexpanded Vic. As such, it is the best commercial package I've seen.

On running the program asks you which block of 64 characters you wish to change, out of the eight blocks in ROM.

You have seventeen commands available, offering a wide range of ways of manipulating the characters, including operation in multicolour mode. You can save the character set on tape and load it at a later date.

A nice touch is that most commands use machine code and are almost instantaneous.

There appear to be one or two bugs involving multicolour mode. If you change the screen colour or the character colour, the multicolour characters revert to high resolution.

Secondly, the display command used for designing shapes does not directly display multicolour characters. You must reset them to multicolour before the display is right.

A.W.

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