| What we have here is not so much a crap game, but more of a technically impressive utility. This is CSSCGC 2008 and we are open to submissions that are a little different - besides it is a most interesting entry. It could perhaps encourage further CGC entries for the Timex TC2048 or Spectrum SE. I loaded this one up under the EightyOne Emulator version 1.0, and selected model Timex TC2048. It worked perfectly under that set-up. You will find comprehensive instructions included in the downloadable zipfile, but to summarise, this program lets you print multicolor text as shown on the left. You can print to the color stream using commands like PRINT AT y,x; #4; my text; Note also that all characters sent to channel #4 must be terminated with a ';' or you get some strange behaviour. Not only can you redefine all 256 characters, but you can also define the attributes of each row of each character too. Again, I highly recommend reading the supplied readme.txt file for full instructions and to see the reconfigured ZX memory map. This is the first entry targeted at the Spectrum SE features as far as I know. It's also nice to get another entry that uses the Timex extra features too. |