A TRIO OF CHARACTERS

[file: Characters]



The first contender this month is Ben Stagnell, 13, of Radway, who

sent us three variations on a program to create new character sets.



Now I don't know about you, but I never bothered to alter my chars in

programs because the effort of either typing in at least 52x8 sets of

data to individually create a new char. set or to modify each letter

using a char. definer program was just too time consuming.



Ben's programs cleverly make modifications to the existing set after

copying them to ROM [sic]. This makes each variation short, fast and

easy to use.



All 96 characters are modified and once you type in the program run it

and save it when instructed you are ready to go. To see the effect

type POKE 23606,0: POKE 23607, 117 and all printing to the screen will

be in that font.



Now as it stands the code of each new character set is located at

30208 which does not give a lot of room for anything else, however the

code can be loaded into any area of memory as long as you follow the

next instructions:



1. CLEAR to the address one less than the code will be loaded to i.e.

   to load it to 64000, CLEAR 63999

2. Type or include as a program instruction LOAD "" CODE address i.e.

   LOAD "" CODE 64000

3. Play the tape with the program code on it.

4. Type or include as program lines:

 LET a=address-256

 POKE 23606,a-INT (a/256)

 POKE 23607,INT (a/256)

 ie. "address" would be replaced by 64000 for the general usefulness

 of these routines.

[The line 4 instructions were all wrong, so I've corrected them.  JimG]



Ben wins the #20 Star-Cut prize.