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Using the HIRES Screen Dump Program

Go ahead and try the different print options with PORTRAINT, large and small, reverse and regular.

Print several of the pictures. Instead of PORTRAINT type the name of another one.

Most load into the HIRES page “low memory.” We’ll wait for you here.

Be an Artist for Fun-and Profit

Impressed, or just intimidated?

Let’s see what we can do’ about making our own mess on the paper. Return to

BASIC and type:

PR #l

I

RUN HIRES INSTRUCTIONS

 

(Don’t worry if the screen says Epson TX-80 HIRES GRAPHIC ROUTINE - it’s been modified for the MX-70.) Abort the program, then enter:

PR #0

Tear off this list of instructions so we can refer to them as we scurry along. According to these instructions, we can write our own program to fill a memory page with HIRES graphics, then use the USR function to print it out. Let’s see if they’re just putting us on.

Type in this short program:

10 HOME

20HGR

30

HCOLOR=7

 

 

40

FOR A=0 TO

2 0 . 4

STEP . 0 2

5 0 R = 1 0 * A * C O S ( A ) * S I N ( A )

60

HPLOT 138

+ R

* COS(A) , 79 + R * SIN(A)

70

NEXT A

 

 

and RUN.

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