Marko_Mäkelä <msmakela@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Andre Fachat wrote:
>
> > Well. I have that now. But then PET2001 fires up in graphics mode, which
> > is unusable with the swapped chars. Are you sure about that?
> > Probably the ROM from funet.fi has a fix for the charrom already
> > applied?
Hm, what I mean is the following.
1. In graphics mode (with uppercase letters and graphics characters),
everything is the same as with later models.
This is the power-up mode.
2. In lowercase mode (with uppercase and lowercase letters), the upper-
and lowercase characters are swapped.
poke 59468,14, if I recall right.
This means, that if you type the word "Hallo", you must type
unshifted H
shifted allo
In other words, the abbreviation for the LIST command looks like
Li instead of like lI. (Doesn't Li look much better? I thought so.).
iF YOU ARE RUNNING PROGRAMS MADE FOR pet MODELS 30XX OR LATER,
TEXT ON THE SCREEN LOOKS LIKE THIS ;-)
and the other way around too.
(perhaps this is where BiFF started with computers?)
At our computer club we had one old PET with such a charrom but otherwise
it had 2.0 ROMs. I suspect there were more such machines.
> There now exist two "new" PET character generator ROMs on ftp.funet.fi.
> One is the PET 2001 character generator, and the other is the SuperPET
> character generator, which seems to have some interesting characters for
> more advanced mathematical operations. Does anyone know for which
> programming language or software these characters were designed?
I guess it's for APL. I think that was one of the languages from Waterloo
that ran on the SuperPET.
> Marko
-Olaf.
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