Posted By
Luca
on 2021-09-01
07:13:01
 |  Re: AROK 2021...
Ah yes carrion and MMS, here it is: Superdither ECM Editor.
Of course, don't expect the supersonic editor with data on the border and tons of facilities, it's a selfmade tool which would have been deliberately kept as simple as possible, but if you want to keep advantage of the 121 colors in ECM, this little crappie stuff might help you. I didn't even have a save option, meant to save $0800-$0FE8 on an emulator.
It's expressly dedicated to the patterns' buildup, once you've got acquainted to the few keys to use, it's all a fact of swapping the colors and alternate the 4 fixed ones with the screen one which changes, and then literally scroll into the cursor the desired pattern from the empty one to the full one and reversed.
To easy reach your desired pattern, I put some shortcuts on the keys 1 to 8 (see the first line in the picture, made of "leaped" patterns"), otherwise you can move patterns with the fine swapping via the cursor keys (the second line in the picture as example). Also to be used often, the Return key to copy a location's color+pattern, so you can immediately change the former or the latter to continue your pattern's drawing.
And of course, you can load by yourself whatever preferred charset in $2000, and do your own kind of ECM graphics.
Hope it will help and support your already well known skills, guys 
EDIT: quickly added an option on ESC key in order to copy the color and screen memory to $2800 at any time, so if you're editing on a real machine you can simply reset it and save $2800-$2FE7. Logically, do the opposite to edit an outer picture, by loading it into $0800-$0FE7.
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