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Mode2 Tile Editor
Author	Andrew Owen
Filename	Mode2TileEditor.zip
Year	2008
Position	44
Format	Timex TC2048 & Spectrum SE
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Description	Aah, how I welcomed Timex entries with open arms into CSSCGC 2008 and glad I did too. Clearly it has added another dimension to the compo this time around. I just love those pretty little colourful sprites that appear on the screen on loading this one up. Strangely, this reminded me of my days of using the STOS sprite editor on the Atari ST. This will no doubt be useful to people writing Timex games - I infer this by the number of times it was downloaded. My only disappointment is that no third parties took it upon themselves to employ this to submit yet another Timex entry, but I guess the number of Timex developers is but a tiny fraction of speccy developers and alas nothing happened. However, who knows if there will?ever be some sort of Timex Hunchback sequel? It was regrettable that this one could not be made available in the online "crap game arcade", due to current lack of a Java based Timex emulator. Anyways, thanks to this program, today I inverted a snake.
Comments	Andrew Writes:- Here's the tile editor as promised. I've included the machine code source so that if anyone does actually use it they won't have to write the display routines from scratch, although they are really very crap (hint, hint). I've included some tiles converted from NetHack. Here's the quick and dirty way to import tiles (not included in the text file): Use BMP2SCR, RetroX alpha, Mac2Spec or whatever to convert two 256x192 24-bit screens to Timex mode-2 screens. The tiles should be in the lower two thirds. Open the editor. Go into storage mode. Load the first .SCR. Press B to switch bank. Load the second .scr. Press B to switch bank again. Presto - tiles imported. This will destroy the upper part of the display though. Press BREAK. Then RUN. The tiles are not displayed yet. Press T to get into storage. Then press X. Voila. Cheers!