Re: Late-model Apple IIc trivia

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) writes...

>On 18 Jul 1998 16:00:56 GMT, a2mg@aol.com (A2MG) wrote:
>
>>>Still no "Running Man" in mousetext, though I doubt any IIc had
>>>it
>>
>>All my //c's have the running man, including the "Rom 4." I miss him on my
>>IIgs.
>
>"Running Man"?  What does THAT character look like?  Can you give me
>an ASCII number for him?

    I got that backwards incidentally, I meant to say my memory
expandable IIc _has_ the Running Man, and I doubt any version of
the IIc lacks it (the AW IIc reference manuals talks about the
Running Man being replaced, but that was only a IIgs change).

    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'.

Type this little basic program to see all the Mousetext characters:

10 PRINT:PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#3":INVERSE
20 PRINT CHR$(27);"@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_";
30 NORMAL

Make sure all the alphabetic characters are typed in UPPERCASE
or it won't work. If you just want to see the Running Man alone,
replace line 20 with:

20 PRINT CHR$(27);"FG";


Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca