how can you please represent letters with different colors?

[funkheld]

how can you please represent letters with different colors?

program is "fastbasic".

Thank you.

greeting

gr. 17

color 1

 

dpoke savmsc,ramadr

 

for k=0 to 50

    x=rand(400)  

    poke (ramadr+x),32

next

Edited March 8, 2019 by funkheld

[Wrathchild]

take a look here

[funkheld]

thanks for teh help.

 

the color " red - yellow - green ?

 

 

greeting

Edited March 8, 2019 by funkheld

[Wrathchild]

Lines 15 to 30 are setting those, background was already black (which would be POKE 712,0)

The values are derived from the hue (color) and luminance (brightness) - e.g. a byte made of with a high nibble of hue and low nibble of lum. So hex $CA for light green in decimal is (12 * 16) + 10

[funkheld]

hello thanks.

 

greeting.

 

why are the colors the same here?

Thank you.

greeting

gr. 17
 
a=peek(88)+256*peek(89)
 
setcolor 708,11,15
poke a+1,32
setcolor 709,7,8
poke a+2,32
 
do
loop

 

Edited March 8, 2019 by funkheld

[Wrathchild]

You are poking the same character value '32'.

In the post I referenced, it states "a char value of 0-63 and the top two high bits control the colour of 0-3."

 

So 32 in hex is $20 or in binary 00100000 - the top 2 bits are 00 and so Color 0 is being used.

It looks like your 'setcolor' parameters are wrong, take a look at this page.

 

Therefore if you wanted color 1, you add 64, color 2, add 128 and color 3, add 192.

 

$20 = 00100000 = 32

$60 = 01100000 = 96

$A0 = 10100000 = 160

$E0 = 11100000 = 224

Maybe a word of warning, setting a colour before outputting a byte is not how the Atari functions.

The colour is determined by the value of the byte output.

If the colour was changed then if would change the colour of all characters associated with that register.