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Re: Late-model Apple IIc trivia
On 22 Jul 1998 14:35 -0500, spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
wrote:
>In article edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) writes...
...
>>"Running Man"? What does THAT character look like? Can you give me
>>an ASCII number for him?
...
> The "Running Man" is actually present on all versions of the
>Apple IIc, the IIc Plus, the Enhanced IIe and the Platinum IIe.
>The Apple IIgs is the only machine which replaced that character
>(or rather a pair of characters) with a four horizontal lines to
>make a menu-bar, and an inversed return symbol. When Mousetext
>is active, the Running Man is mapped to 'F' and 'G'.
That RULES! I often saw the mismapped "Mousetext G", but I never
noticed him. Maybe because my Mousetext reference is my
ImageWriter II manual, which has the inverse check and 3 lines, as
opposed to the running man.
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