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Cover Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter One: Fundamentals Graphics in Mode 0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Discovering "Hidden" Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copy Your Screen to Your Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GTIA: An Illustrated Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter Two: Colors Using SETCOLOR, COLOR, and POKE to Color Your Screen . Rainbow Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colors by Page Flipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Fill-In on XIO(FILL). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter Three: Redefining Character Sets Character Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Custom Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Four-Color Character Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Four-Color Character Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter Four: Animation Animation by Page Flipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Player/Missile Graphics Simplified. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PRINTing P/M Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter Five: Artists' Utilities Fontbyter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Screenbyter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter Six: Advanced Techniques Moving the Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Screen Flipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artifacting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter Seven: Protecting Memory Positioning Player/Missile and Regular Graphics in Memory. . . . Memory Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beware the RAMTOP Dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Listing Conventions Index Software Archive

Staff Stephen Levy Gregory L. Kopp Harry A. Straw Louis and Helen Markoya Stephen Levy John R. Slaby Robert W. Myers Gretchen Schabtach Charles Brannon Charles Delp Orson Scott Card Tim Kilby David N. Plotkin Staffan Sandberg Sheldon Leemon Orson Scott Card and Carl Zahrt Carl Zahrt and Orson Scott Card Michael P. Surh Michael Kirtley Judson Pewther Fred Pinto Jim Clark K. W. Harms

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