[Liquid-salt]

wouldn't it be neat to have drawing modes like just placing pixels here and there? ?You could do some neato artwork and level design. ? Why cant we have an element that we can give a few coords like a line command.???? ? ?PLEASE!! ?I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME, GREAT GODS OF PROGRAMMING NEW VERSIONS OF MZX!!
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[MadBrain]

Making boards pixel by pixel? Unfortunately, mzx is in text mode, which makes it technically impossible.

[Exophase]

MZX 2.6 has pixel based access to the char set. Read the help file.

- Exo

[Rubicant]

Coding to add pixel-by-pixel editing of a board in MegaZeux's text mode interface would be like ironing clothes with a hot stone.

[Nanobot]

We could make some sort of thing where it's really in a graphics mode but looks exactly the same, and then just make commands that allow you to do drawings. Then we could make smooth-motion Doom-type 3D, quantum cubes, and the like. And then we could make a cure for cancer IN MEGAZEUX! But why stop there? Let's have MegaZeux open up a wormhole in front of you to another dimension filled with computers, link to them all, and thus give you infinite memory? It's BRILLIANT! I'll get right to working on it.

...Was that too overly sarcastic? ;P

[Liquid-salt]

Exo - The pixel access to the charset isn't what I'm looking for.

*   I didn't know Mzx was in Txt Mode.  Can you add text in Grapgix mode?
*   If you could, would it run slower, would it be harder to use coords?

Why is mzx so addictive?

[astral]

I don't think they have the sources needed to apply a change like that, so the closest you'll be able to get is the pixel by pixel char editing. I could be wrong, but then again I believe this was brought up before somewhere.

[Exophase]

astral, on Mar. 16 2002,08:48, said:

I don't think they have the sources needed to apply a change like that, so the closest you'll be able to get is the pixel by pixel char editing. I could be wrong, but then again I believe this was brought up before somewhere.

We have most of the sources. While this can be done, in theory, it's in a bad platform to work with (real mode DOS) and it would be difficult to change some internal things.

... suffice it to say that none of us are going to do any major changes at this point. If MZX ever gets ported, maybe.

- Exo