Re: Replacing the blinking checkerboard cursor with something else?

[chungshum@my-deja.com]

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<jonINTERNETrelayCHAT-2503002121040001@nn-157-22-180-221.napanet.net>,
jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:
> I wrote a couple of programs that POKEd different values into location
> 50 and printed out some text, to show how text looked with different
> bit masks. When the programs ended, I found that the normal blinking
> checkerboard cursor wasn't a checkerboard anymore. The first program
> replaced it with a blinking uppercase O, and the second program
> replaced it with a blinking underscore character.
>
> Does anybody know why it did this and/or if the cursor replacement can
> be controlled? The computer I ran the programs on was a ROM 3 Apple
> IIgs, but I've seen this happen on an emulated Apple IIc (maybe Apple
> IIe) too.
Don't know about the IIe or IIc, but on my ROM 01 IIgs, you can do:
print chr$(30)"a"
where "a" is the new cursor character. Another way to do it is to press
control-6 at the BASIC prompt followed by the character you want for the
cursor.
Chung


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