Re: Changing the ASCII character

[Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl>]

Rubywand wrote:

>      If you want to change one or more Text display characters, you need
> to swap in a custom PROM (or tack on a PROM and supply decoding, which
> is more bother than just doing a new PROM).

There were lots of programs that redirected the cin and cout hooks to
make use of the hires screen. These programs all had character sets in
RAM. Couldn't that be a solution?
I also remember when I had a European Apple //e which could switch
between the british and american character set (i.e. CHR$(35) could look
a pound or a hash symbol). Since both these character sets were in the
same ROM, obviously, I wonder if it's not possible to put even more
different sets in ROM, without much "bother". You know, like the GS has.
As an alternative, theoretically it would be possible to change the ROMs
on an Apple II emulator. Wouldn't it? I mean, those emulators have their
ROM in RAM. But I wouldn't know if that would be a solution.

Pim Blokland
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