{"id":1772,"date":"2022-01-31T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matosimi.websupport.sk\/atari\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2022-01-31T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:55:48","slug":"swspred-software-sprite-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matosimi.websupport.sk\/atari\/2022\/01\/swspred-software-sprite-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"SwSprEd &#8211; Software sprite editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I took <a href=\"https:\/\/bocianu.gitlab.io\/spred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bocianu<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bocianu.gitlab.io\/spred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SprEd <\/a>tool for designing Hardware sprites (Player Missile Graphics driven) and created a derived product called SwSprEd&#8230; which is (quite surprisingly) software sprite editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor is running in web browser, it is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/swspred-atari.sourceforge.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swspred-atari.sourceforge.io<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Usage is basically almost same as in SprEd:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>everything can be controlled by mouse quite conveniently + lot of keyboard shortcuts available as well<\/li><li>can be zoomed within browser w\/o any issue &#8211; 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