CHAR PEEK

by Owen Stott



That pesky car alarm is still wailing. Let's hope somebody steals the

car soon, eh? To continue the binary theme, here's Owen again with a

small but perfectly formed routine that allows you to see exactly how

the character set is made up in memory. Just type in a letter or

number and the prog will display that character's ASCII code, binary

representation and block pattern. The character set itself is held at

location 15360 (PEEK 23606 + 256*PEEK 23607) and with a bit of cunning

maths, Owen's routine reads out the pattern of your character and

whaps it onto screen, using graphic squares instead of pixels so you

can see [and] appreciate its clinically elegant design (or something).

Very handy if you're into designing fonts, and a fair bit of fun if

you're not.

