.petmate viewer controls¶
Toolbar controls for Petmate JSON screen files.
Page navigation¶
Buttons: ‹ (previous) / › (next)
Indicator: Page X/N
Navigate between pages in the .petmate file. Buttons are disabled at the first and last page respectively.
Charset toggle¶
Button: Lowercase charset / Uppercase charset
Switches the active glyph bank — equivalent to pressing Shift+C= on a C64. The file stores screen codes which are charset-independent; toggling selects which ROM bank to render them from.
The charset is auto-detected from each page's charset field in the JSON ("upper" or "lower") and applied when navigating to that page. The button reflects the detected state. Manual toggles are tracked per page within the session — navigating away and back restores the manual override if one was set, otherwise the page's stored charset is reapplied.
MCI Commands¶
Button: MCI Commands (dimmed when hidden)
Shows or hides MCI command tokens. Detection uses screen-code equivalents and is charset-independent.
See MCI commands for recognized syntax.
Palette selector¶
Dropdown: CGTerm / Colodore / PALette / Pepto / Petmate / VICE
Selects the color palette for all 16 C64 colors. See Color palettes.
Background color swatches¶
16 colored squares to the right of the palette selector.
Click any swatch to override the background color for the current page. The override is session-only — the file's stored background color is not changed.