Living Type for the Commander X16

A Chinese Word Processor for the Commander X16 that supports 10,000 Chinese characters.

The program itself is called "HUOZI.PRG" and the resources should be kept in a folder called "huozi" on the SD card or file system.

Huozi is the romanization of 活字, the name given by Bisheng to his 11th century invention of moveable type.

IMPORTANT: The huozi folder and should be kept in the same folder where the Commander X16 emulator is located in order to run properly.

LOADING:

From the home screen of the Commander X16 load the program with

LOAD "HUOZI/HUOZI.PRG"

Followed by

RUN

Once the program is loaded press any key to get past the title screen.

CONTROLS:

To toggle Chinese input press: SHIFT + SPACE

To toggle Command Mode press: CTRL + C

There are 4 commands the program can preform:

1. save

save [filename]

Which saves a binary text file to the huozi folder and [filename] represents your given name to the file

2. load

load [filename]

Which loads a binary text file from the huozi folder and [filename] represents the given name of the file

3. new

new

Which creates a new document for the user (erasing all current data held in memory)

4. color

color [0-9]

Which sets the text color to one of the ten selected colors

Demo

In Command Mode try out

load data

To see a text file containing 4800 Chinese Characters

load david

To see some PETSCII art