Commodore 128D - Section 6-Color, Animation and Sprite Graphics; Statements Unique to the C128

SECTION 6
f"! Color, Animation
and Sprite
Graphics
■ ] Statements
Unique to the
C128
GRAPHICS OVERVIEW 95
Graphics Features 95
Command Summary 96
GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING ON THE COMMODORE 128 97
Choosing Colors 97
Types of Screen Display 98
Selecting the Graphic Mode 99
Displaying Graphics on the Screen 101
Drawing a Circle—The CIRCLE Command 101
Drawing a Box—The BOX Command 102
Drawing Lines, Points and Other Shapes—The DRAW
Command 102
PAINTing Outlined Areas—The PAINT Command 103
Displaying Characters on a Bit-Mapped Screen—
The CHAR Command 104
Changing the Size of Graphic Images—The SCALE
Command 104
Creating a Graphics Sample Program 106
SPRITES: PROGRAMMABLE, MOVABLE OBJECT BLOCKS 109
Sprite Creation 109
Sprite Definition Mode—The SPRDEF Command 109
Sprite Creation Procedure in SPRite DEFinition Mode 110
Using Sprite Statements in a Program 112
Drawing the Sprite Image 113
Storing the Sprite Data with SSH APE 114
Saving the Picture Data in a Sprite 115
Turning on Sprites 115
Moving Sprites with MOVSPR 116
Creating a Sprite Program 118
Adjoining Sprites 119
Storing Sprite Data in Binary Files 123
BSAVE 125
BLOAD 126
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USING C128 MODE—Color, Animation and Sprite Graphics Statements