Commodore 64 Creating sprites using Excel

Last weekend I was working on some sprites in Commodore Basic. I wondered if I simply could use Excel to calculate the required values. So I started to work on an Excel worksheet that can be used to create a Commodore sprite. Everybody that started programming sprites on a commodore in de eighties probably started designing sprites, using graph paper. I myself had no printer at the beginning and certainly not a printer that was capable of printing a raster. Sprite design tools where not known to me in the eighties. I knew only the commodore manual, that was included by the commodore computer. So the only way was taking the graph paper, and draw the sprite raster yourselves, count the cells, draw the lines, and calculate the byte values. This was also the first time I learned to use bits and bytes. Nowadays many online applications and tools for sprite drawing are available that you can use. Nevertheless I just wanted to create myself, a simple template using Office Excel. I also created a how to do that video. You can find the file here if you want to use it yourselves. You can now find it here https://github.com/justforthefunofit/create-sprites-using-excel

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