I'm planning to eventually write an all purpose sprite editor for 8x8 and 16x16 sprites supporting monochrome, 3 color, and 4 color grayscale on-calc.  It will be written in Axe itself, but I need to wait on it because I have to add reading and writing to the Ans variable so that the sprites can be imported and exported.

If anyone has any other good tools, particularly for the computer since I imagine many sprites will be drawn there instead of on-calc, please post them here.  I am currently looking for a good program that can output z80 hex code for a 4 color gray bitmap, but I can't seem to find anything.  I'm about to write one in C++ if I don't see anything soon, but I really don't have the time for that right now.

that would rule, that and the ans support. So basically there will be an editor for the calc and one for the comp?

Yeah it was added the week after my post. Keep in mind if the Ans value is something else than 0-65535, it will give an error, though.

You could have it spit out the pics for the back-buffer and the buffer as text, and then have the person manually copy the text.  Unless you can put it in an unarchived open program, in which case, that would be easer.  Just have the program, after run, store the strings in str1 and str2.  Would that work?

I could not get that program to work.

The program worked for me... up until I tried to send the created program to my real calculator, which is odd cause it opened just fine in Wabbitemu.

No, It wouldn't open at all.  Of course, that could be my computer, though.

I've actually been working on an Axe sprite editing program myself. As of now, it supports:

• 8x8 and 16x16
• Multiple realtime zoom views
• Realtime hex display
• Hex input
• Flipping horizontally/vertically
• Rotating
• Opening and saving as many sprites as memory allows
• Help screen (with nice scrolling!) Had to scrap this to save 850 bytes, program was getting too large

The real trick will be fitting in features like grayscale with my program already over 7 KB.