Re: Replacing the blinking checkerboard cursor with something else?

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <8bkdsi$f69$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, chungshum@my-deja.com wrote:

> In article
> <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.

Yep. That works on the IIgs. Doesn't on the IIe or IIc, though, so I'm
still wondering how it happened on those two.

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