17 Jun
1999
17 Jun
'99
5 p.m.
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
(niggle) the SOL is 8080 based... B^}
As an aside, the screen is filled with
"90909090...". In skimming the manual
This sounds like a classic display on all Z-80 based machines with
memory-mapped video.
The 39 displays as '9', the 00 displays as something that's
machine-specific. I seem to remember that most Processor Technology
machines have a rectangular frame for this character. Is the '0' really a
zero or could it be this?
Indeed, with the standard character generator ROM it is a square frame
rather than a zero. (but how do you represent that in ASCII?) B^}
-jim
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