tiler is a character set and screen editor for the VIC-20

tiler lets you edit character sets and screens to use in your program.

Instructions

In the main mode:

x          enter character editor mode, or leave it
spacebar   draw
w a s d    movement
semicolon  current char left
quote      current char right
c          copy world
p          paste world
b          bring up overlay, or squelch it
z          flip character selection row in overlay
g          increment background color
h          increment border color
1-0        change color
m          bucket fill
escape     squelch overlay
f5         save
f7         load

In the character editor mode:

escape     go to main mode
x          flip character like an x-ray
spacebar   draw
w a s d    movement
semicolon  current char left
quote      current char right
c          copy character
p          paste character
u          limited undo
k          clear character and copy it
1          enable 1-character edit mode
4          enable 4-character edit mode
y          horizontal flip
g          increment background color
h          increment border color
z          flip character selection row
f5         save
f7         load

In save or load mode:

escape    exit
return    save or load
f5 or f7  toggle between save/load screen and character set

Build and run in the emulator

sh ./build.sh

To build tiler the following programs must be installed, with the exception of xvic:

vice emulator  xvic
assembler      64tass
cruncher       exomizer