Re: Changing the ASCII character

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <6he6p4$8fj@examiner.concentric.net>,
Cameron Kaiser  <cdkaiser@delete.these.four.words.concentric.net> wrote:
>What he meant to say is that on the 64, you can *copy* the character set out
>of Char ROM, put it in RAM, tweak it, and then tell the VIC2 video chip to use
>that set instead. I've never seen this done on the Apple II, so I assume
>it's not possible, but I'm curious too. Is this behaviour hardwired into
>whatever logic array powers the display?

   As I've said twice so far in this thread, there'a chargen
(character generator) ROM connected only to the video display logic on
an Apple II. Not possible to use RAM as a character map on an Apple II
unless you use the graphics screens and custom fonts, etc.

Nathan Mates

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