newTIboyRob Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Just wondering if anyone knows if Applesoft BASIC circa the early 80's had a list of CHR$ or ASCII codes? I am looking for symbols instead of letters though, trying to print a small box on the screen like this: ▢ Not sure if this was too advanced for those days or if that small empty box above actually could be done. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhataKowinkydink Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Looks like only the IIe and beyond has graphic "characters": |https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_character_set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newTIboyRob Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 True, thanks. The 2E column 5x,2 that shaded out cursor, is the closest to a box, but that is on a 2c. My other thought is maybe I can draw a small box like that using commands in a Basic program like HPLOT, DRAW etc. I shall try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 11 hours ago, newTIboyRob said: Just wondering if anyone knows if Applesoft BASIC circa the early 80's had a list of CHR$ or ASCII codes? I am looking for symbols instead of letters though, trying to print a small box on the screen like this: ▢ Not sure if this was too advanced for those days or if that small empty box above actually could be done. Thanks The Enhanced Apple //e and //c and ][gs have the Mouse Text Characters.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MouseText That will get you some Symbols that are kind of like the IBM Extended Character Set.. The Apple ][, ][+, have Upper Case and some Symbols and the ][e has Lower Case as well.. There are Replacment Character ROMs that can be added into the Apple ][s to give Lower Case and there is a Custom ROM, ( Pig Font ) that was designed for a BBS System to use in the Apple ][.. MarkO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newTIboyRob Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 Thanks MarkO, and for answering my other posts as well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 5 hours ago, newTIboyRob said: Thanks MarkO, and for answering my other posts as well I have been using the Apple ][s for a fairly long time..... JAN-1982 to be exact, and I got my first Apple ][, the Apple ][e in NOV-1983... MarkO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newTIboyRob Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 Awesome! I bet you had every issue of Family Computing and typed those programs in with eagerness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 On 7/30/2023 at 6:17 PM, newTIboyRob said: Awesome! I bet you had every issue of Family Computing and typed those programs in with eagerness! Actually no... My dad did get "Info World" and "The Computer Shopper", but I only got the Home Computing magazines on an occasional basis.... I did get a few FREE Issues of SofTalk, because "new" Apple Owners could register their Serial Number, so I did with the Apple ][e Above..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softalk I did get a few Books for Computer Programming... BTW, did you know that you can Download PDFs of Usborne, Classic Computer programming books?? https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books MarkO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newTIboyRob Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Cool to know. I would actually be interesting in knowing if all the Family Computing magazines were free downloads. I used to spend hours typing those programs in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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