VChar64

About

An editor for the Commodore 64/128

Tailored for my own needs, but feel free to send patches, to open bugs, etc.

Features

• Char editing:
  • Cut, Copy & Paste
  • Clear
  • Invert
  • Flip Horizontally, Vertically
  • Rotate
  • Shift Up, Down, Left, Right
  • Undo, Redo
• Tile support:
  • From 1x1 to 8x8
  • Custom Distance in chars between tiles
• Map support
• Imports CharPad 1.8 and 2.0 projects
• Imports Koala image files: Demo Video
• Imports VICE snapshot images
• Exports to Assembly, C (const uint8_t[]), Raw, PRG, and PNG
• Emulates different palettes: Pepto, VICE, Colodore, Frodo, CCS64, etc.
• Live Preview mode:
  • TCP/IP server support. Demo Video
• Keyboard shortcuts for almost all actions

Roadmap

In no particular order:

• Convert to PETSCII
• Tile: add Color Per Char (currently it supports Color Per Tile or Global)
• Tile: arbitrary composition of tiles
• Character / Tile animation support
• Sprite
  • Sprite editing
  • Sprite animation
• Level editor

Requirements

• Qt 6.8 or later (Qt 5 is no longer supported as of version 1.0)
• CMake 3.16+
• C++20 compatible compiler

How to compile it

Install Qt

• Download Qt Creator Community Edition 6.8 or newer (doesn't work with older versions)

Command Line

$ git clone https://github.com/ricardoquesada/vchar64.git
$ cd vchar64
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build . --parallel
$ ctest --output-on-failure

To update the translations do:

# To update the entries in the .ts file
$ cmake --build . --target update_translations

# To trigger the generation of the .qm files manually
$ cmake --build . --target release_translations

Using Qt Creator

• Open CMakeLists.txt with Qt Creator
• Configure the project for "Desktop"
• Build & Run

Supported platforms

• Linux (tested on Linux Arch)
• Mac (tested on v26.2)
• Windows (tested on Windows 10)

Download binaries

• https://github.com/ricardoquesada/vchar64/releases

License

• Apache v2