Changing text colour in Mode 0

[Lardo Boffin]

I have been messing around with text and was trying to change the colour of text in a single character without affecting adjacent characters and have been struggling.

Below is a quick demo program written in BBC BASIC:

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In theory the colour of each character should be different but it looks like the colour is actually set each 8 pixels even though the font in mode 0 is 6 pixels wide.

Is there any way round this using mode 0?

It puts me in mind of attribute clash on the Speccy.

[Lardo Boffin]

Thanks to a magazine purchase from Mike:

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[retrogamer]

So the Einstein would need 96K to implement 16 different colours at pixel level!

No wonder the implementation involves compromises.

I hadn't realised the spacing pixel is to the left of the character.

Fascinating stuff!