Character Peek

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.