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press the spacebar to save and your sprites will be there in the same folder as the executable ready to cut and paste into your basic code

(the save is called .monkeystate)

EDIT - altered the colors to match speccy colors

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Im making a sprite creator for speccy, does anyone know the RGB values 0-255 for each spectrum color?

Which graphic library is good to use in different situations? and what advantages disadvantages do they have?

How hard would it be to make the language modular enough that it could be extended with new keywords?

E.g. if I wanted 64 column printing to work with MICROPRINT AT 18,43;INVERSE 1; "TEXT"

I could publish a module that would add this functionality?

since i'm seeing so many good games from MojonTwins supporting ULAplus, and its implementation looked so simple, i tried to code some library and example for that - be welcome testing it (i think would be a good idea if this could be implemented defaultly on zxbasic-compiler, what do you all think?)
(for now i'm testing this on SpectEmu on Wine, while there are no native emulators for LInux)

library/ulaplus.bas

recently i were trying to use the zx-spectrum display like 8x8 patterns used on tms9918 (used on msx1, Sega-sg1000, Colecovision, ti99/4, etc. - and somehow similar on what is used on Sega-MasterSystem or NES)

i'm curious on using the display like this, specially when we see some games this way, if i'm not mistaking, 'Stop the ITA-Express' (Hudson), King's Valley (originally Konami, converted from Retroworks), etc.

besides tms9918 uses 2 banks of 2kb (one for bitmap, and another for 8x1 attributes), on the charmap01.bas i'm using 2k for bitmap and 256 bytes for attributes

issues: just like 32x24print example, and i'm not using asm routines, i'm having performance problems as expected (i really wished to be more skilled on assembly for that)

example.bas

just sharing a snippet i coded now - this is about handling 4 simultaneous players (just like those arcade games from early 90's) on one keyboard - the only issues is maybe some sprites ('printing' udgs for that) may disapear, and on emulators (due on keyboard hardware or driver limitation) more than few simultaneous keys (like 6, depending) are not recognized, but i think this doesn't happen on real hardware.

this code is relativelly similar to one in assembly i posted on Karoshi msx forum, with some help from there - the code below has some differences, like the lack of hardware sprites on zx-spectrum, being all in basic language (except asm defb), etc.

please share oppinions, feedback, suggestions, etc., about this! - in my oppinion, games behaving like this (4 simultaneous players on one keyboard) are really rare on zx-spectrum, afaik

the keys used are 'wsad' for 1, 'tgfh' for 2, 'ikjl' for 3, and cursor keys for 4

i did a test with the code below on both zmakebas (tokenizes zxspectrum-basic into a .tap file) and Boriel's zxbasic compiler, and it seems Boriel's compiler is missing colour 9 support:

does anyone know how to convert a sprite (in any format) to ASM defb statements?

say for example my sprite was like this:

1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1