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Re: Why I DIDN'T enhance the E (help!)
- Subject: Re: Why I DIDN'T enhance the E (help!)
- From: nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)
- Date: 19 Jan 1995 22:28:42 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- References: <3fd0uf$rh7@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> <3fh76i$c1i@gap.caltech.edu> <3fiath$dm1@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>
In article <3fiath$dm1@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>: Mousetext only appears when you have inversed uppercase letters
>: written incorrectly to the screen. (Usually associated with 'freetools'
>: progs written before they knew that apple would *** up the charmap).
>: Does PFS invert the screen and do everything that way.
>Define "incorrectly"!
Some freetools display that inversed things by masking them with
$7F and slamming that to the screen. That worked pre-mousetext, but
Apple's oddball charmap should be taken out and shot.
Nathan Mates
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