Jim Bagley

Jim Bagley’s sprite tools

Jim has put together a set of tools to help converting .BMP images to the new sprite format of the Spectrum Next, ready to be hardware-accelerated on screen. Here they are:

 64spr.bmp
An 8bit sprite screen with the correct palette for Spectrum Next.

 

 convert2NextSpr
This file converts any 8bit BMP into a raw Spectrum Next sprite file

  1. Extract the EXE out of this zip file
  2. to use type
  3. Convert2NextSpr filename S
  4. change filename to the name of your BMP image but leave out the .bmp part

 

 nextpal
Spectrum Next palette ACT file for Photoshop.