Stoner opened this issue on Aug 30, 2008 · 29 posts
pauljs75 posted Tue, 16 September 2008 at 5:18 PM
Hahah... Cool stuff! I remember doing some crazy PEEK & POKE things from the back pages of Antic magazine to make glyphs on the 130XE. So the letter A would instead be part of some animated dude on the screen. Then you could cycle through the characters to make it look like he was running. I guess it was another weird way of doing things besides sprites. But didn't know that kind of thing could actually work with BBSs. (Never had a modem at that time. I can understand that the parents didn't want big phone bills either.) I do recall doing some ASCII art things during my first go at college, back then some of the readers would also parse ^G (control-G) which at the time would feed through the system-beep. I guess you could figure out what kind of mischief was to be had with that simple yet stupid piece of knowledge. :laugh:
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