TO LOAD THIS CART IN IMMEDIATE MODE TYPE:
@zep as you know has made many changes to the ASCII character set since Pico-8 first came out. I did not see a cart that shows all the ASCII characters let alone the newest ones. So here you have one I wrote.
Also you can continue to work on your main code and run this in a new Pico-8 environment.
Yep, you can run more than one copy of Pico-8 and refer to this as needed when you are working on your code with ALT-TAB to swap between Window tasks.
And there are some special characters you can try right now. For instance once the table is up you will notice a BELL on character 7.
Try it out. In your code or immediate mode type out:
Ha, I remember reading my first Apple ][ manual and it worded right in there after you typed out the example of print chr$(7)
HOPE THAT DIDN'T SCARE THE CAT.
Well we're beyond that now, but feel free to try out the table. Press (O) to progress through the 4-pages and (X) to swap between decimal and hexadecimal notation.
The extra characters after the bell in YELLOW are Backspace, Tab, ENTER, Home, and the ESCAPE key.
If you look in the sprite set you'll see a set of super skinny hexadecimal characters. Even then I couldn't put 8-across which is what I was shooting for. I may use that set somewhere else later though.
You can also use this table as a quick study for matching hexadecimal digits with regular decimal up to 255. Press (X) to swap between the two.
The cart features a new effervescent effect I was playing with. Fizzy ! And you don't even need a glass of Sprite to do it. :)
Enjoy !