[Coco] question number 2

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The text screen characters are hard-coded into the mysterious GIME and
thus can't be changed. -r

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Coco] question number 2
> From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
> Date: Sat, April 14, 2007 1:46 pm
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> mike delyea wrote: > I remember one of the coco mags had a program to
> install the IBM character > set (specifically the line drawing set)
> into the coco. Does anyone know > (a) > how to do this and (b) does it
> work with the 40/80 text as well as the > graphics screen? > The
> HPRINT character set is stored from $F09D-F39C. There are 8 bytes per
> character. The characters are arraigned per the ascii set starting
> with SPACE. Far as I can tell, there is no way to change the text
> screen characters. You can change the graphic characters by loading a
> new character set into the indicated space. -- Coco mailing list
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