Forrest picture

Forrest Picture is a picture drawn by Mr. Lous girlfriend, and is a demonstration on how to use the graphic abilities of the CPC.

The picture uses mode 1 of the CPC. The graphic mode is limited to 4 simultanious colors. After publication the picture became the subject on how to break the 4 colour limit in mode 1 using rasters. Subsequent T&J wrote a small program showing how the picture would look like using rasters generated by the gate array.

Original picture

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Picture using rasters

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Sourcecode

Example of rasters in a MODE 1 screen
T&J/GPA in 2009

Done under WINAPE
Not tested on a real CPC, so maybe it needs some timing adjustments

Wait for Color Lines ! Rasters inside !!

ORG &9000 NOLIST WRITE "RASTERS.BIN"

black equ &54 grey equ &41 green_19 equ &51 red_6 equ &4C blue_1 equ &44 blue_11 equ &57 blue_14 equ &5F bleu_clair equ &53

violet equ &58

JP booter

save38 defw &0

Booter DI LD HL,(&38) LD (save38),HL LD HL,&C9FB LD (&38),HL EI

main DI LD B,&F5 sync IN A,(C) RRA JR NC,sync

CALL scan_spacekey CP &7F JP Z,endit

LD BC,&7F02 ; sky OUT (C),C LD A,blue_11 OUT (C),A

EI

HALT

LD HL,&FDD0 wait1 INC HL LD A,H AND A JR NZ,wait1

LD BC,&7F02 OUT (C),C LD A,&5F OUT (C),A

HALT HALT

LD HL,&FFC0 wait2 INC HL LD A,H AND A JR NZ,wait2

LD BC,&7F02 ; board of the lake OUT (C),C LD A,grey OUT (C),A

LD HL,&FF74 wait3 INC HL LD A,H AND A JR NZ,wait3

LD BC,&7F02 OUT (C),C

LD D,green_19 LD E,red_6

DI

LD A,&40

split1 OUT (C),E ; red mushrooms PUSH AF NOP NOP NOP NOP NOP OUT (C),D ; green mushroom

NOP NOP NOP

LD A,&9 waitsp1 DEC A JR NZ,waitsp1

POP AF DEC A JR NZ,split1

JP main

endit

LD BC,&7F02 ; sky OUT (C),C LD A,blue_14 OUT (C),A

LD HL,(save38) DI LD (&38),HL EI RET

scan_spacekey

LD BC,&F40E OUT (C),C LD BC,&F6C0 OUT (C),C LD C,&0 OUT (C),C LD BC,&F792 OUT (C),C LD BC,&F645 OUT (C),C LD B,&F4 IN A,(C) LD BC,&F782 OUT (C),C LD BC,&F600 OUT (C),C RET </geshi>

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