Faster Bank View and Unshifted Cursor Keys

21.07.2025 Release 1.1
The bank viewer screen has had a few improvements, including a new machine code routine to really speed things up.
Support has been added for unshifted cursor keys. In order to avoid adding extra BASIC lines that might slow things down I've added a machine code routine in place of the previous system variable PEEK to detect keypresses.
The SAVE code has been moved from line 500 to 2500. This speeds up the tile grabbing and view bank code very slightly.
There's now some caps lock protection after saving to tape. The user could potentially enable caps lock when entering a filename and get stuck afterwards. Not a big deal but caps lock is now turned off after the filename is entered.
With two new routines added all machine code is now loaded via a code file instead of DATA statements.
Files
Get GraTiS - Grab Tiles and Sprites
GraTiS - Grab Tiles and Sprites
Programmers' tool to grab tiles from SCREEN$ and .SCR files
Status | Released |
Category | Tool |
Author | Jonathan Cauldwell |
Tags | sprite-grabber, tileset-grabber |
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Thank you Jonathan, all the best.