Special Characters
On an earlier post someone asked about creating special characters. Circa 1985 I had reason to create a 'person', car and truck inside the size envelope of a 'character' I am a Traffic and Transportation Engineer (...that means one of the things I do is design Traffic Signals) and turned the NECs into an 'automated' 'Turn Count Recorder' to make it easier to count vehicles as they turned Left-Thru-Right on their respective approach to a roadway intersection. I used the BASIC command POKE and 'loaded' a position in memory with the specific pixel locations for the special character. Then I would PEEK the memory location when I wanted to print it to the specific location on the screen. This was on the NEC 8201A and 8300 platforms. As I recall, it was 'easy' to do. If the PEEK and POKE are available in the RS platforms ...and if anyone is interested I could cut and paste the code. ....as I recall it was truly only a few lines of code; after I had figured out how to do it. RLO (Richard) PS In an earlier post....In the code at lines 12010 through 12080 ....I just happened to look at the code and in this little segment I think you might have been able to do this in one or two lines and directly compute X and Y using the BASIC INT and MOD commands. ================================
