All,
This is my first post, but hopefully not my last.
I originally had an M100 in 1984 that I hocked for $50 bucks at a local
pawn shop for food money in my freshman year. I never went back (I
didn't get the $50 plus interest for ages). Now, it's 38 years later and
I'm finally getting it out of hock (so to speak). I remember writing a
basic program that read the character bitmaps out of ROM (at least
that's how I remember it) and used the bitmap as a basis for a banner in
the same font. I think I'd like my first program on my new/old M100 to
be a banner program and so I'm digging around looking for where, in ROM,
the character bitmaps are stored. I've looked here, there, and
everywhere to no avail. Is there a set of bitmaps stored in ROM, and if
so where?
If I remember correctly, each character was represented as a set of 8
(maybe 7) 6 (maybe 5) bit binary numbers:
001000
010100
100010
100010
111110
100010
100010
000000
or somesuch for A...
resulting in something like:
1
1 1
1 1
1 1
11111
1 1
1 1
being displayed. The zeros on the bottom and right may be on the top or
left, or not there at all, but there are spaces between and below
characters, either in the bitmap or added by the display functions.
Thanks!
Will
