Re: Changing the ASCII characters

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes:

>   For an Apple II, burn a new character generator ROM chip. As Apple
>was about the only company which made those chips, there's no real dox
>available, and this would only work on computers you modified. If you
>don't mind a massive speed hit and don't mind losing compatability
>with most programs, you could use the hires or double hires screens as
>a graphical environment with your own custom fonts.

>Nathan Mates

This isn't actually as bad speedwise as you might think. Going back years
ago, I seem to recall that one issue of the Apple Nibble magazine had a
program to create a command shell in full graphics mode, or something like
that. Anyone else remember it, and the it's details?
 

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