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 ZX-ALFA (ZX-SOFT)

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ZX-ALFA is a font editor for the ZX-Spectrum. It includes about a hundred new

character sets.





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FEATURES

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The main menu options are:



* SELECT FONT: Choose current font. There are 7 font "slots" available for

  editing.



* RENAME: Rename current font.



* EDIT: Edit current font. Each individual character can be selected, copied,

  inverted, mirrored, scrolled, erased, or modified directly (move the cursor

  to the bottom of editing area to exit after you finish modifying it).



* MOVE ALL: Scroll the entire current font by 1 character (press left/right) or

  1 byte (press up/down). Very useful if you want to raise all characters by a

  pixel, for instance.



* MOVE BLOCK: Copy a block of characters to another position within the current

  font. Very useful if you want all lowercase letters copied from uppercase,

  for instance.



* COPY ALL: Replace the entire (current) font with a copy of another font. Very

  useful if you are planning to edit a copy of the original ZX-Spectrum font,

  for instance.



* COPY BLOCK: Replace a block of characters (in the current font) with a copy

  of the same characters from another font. Very useful when, for certain

  characters, it's easier to modify the original ZX-Spectrum version instead of

  creating them from scratch.



* ACCESS TAPE: Load, save or verify the current font.





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USAGE

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All fonts edited with ZX-ALFA are saved on tape like this:



  SAVE ALFA$ CODE 64000,768



The easiest way to use a new font in your programs is to load it as follows:



  CLEAR 63999: LOAD ""CODE 64000



Afterwards, to activate this font use this:



  POKE 23607,249



To restore the regular ZX-Spectrum font use this:



  POKE 23607,60





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CREDITS

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Produced by *ZX-SOFT* Brasil Ltda (c)1989.

Programmed by Einar Saukas & Eduardo Ito.