Voila! It should have printed out the three characters we de- fined. Your printout should look like this:

(If it doesn’t, check the last program we ran for errors, then rerun it.)

Let’s find out if there are any other characters in the download RAM. Try this program:

10 LPRINT CHR$(27) "$1"

20 FOR I=33 TO 126 : LPRINT CHR$(I); : NEXT I

30 FOR I=160 TO 254 : LPRINT CHR$(I); : NEXT I 40 LPRINT

50 LPRINT CHR$(27) "$0"

As you can see, in addition to the characters you have defined (they are the last ones on the printout), SG-lo/15 also printed all characters. This makes it very easy to combine user-defined characters with regular text.

If SG- 10/l 5 didn’t have this feature, mixing download and standard characters would be rather inconvenient: every time you wanted to use a download character you would have to switch back and forth between character sets.

To demonstrate how to use these characters, let’s use this character set to print a small graph. This program, which has been built around the first program in this chapter, will do just that:

 

 

 

 

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5

ESC$= CHR$(27)

:

TB$=CHR$(9)

 

10

LPRINT ESC$ "*l"

CHR$(160) CHR$(162);

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20

FOR ~=160 TO

162

 

 

30

FOR M=@ TO 11

 

 

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40

READ MM

 

 

 

 

 

50

LPRINT CHR$(MM);

 

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60NEXT M

70NEXT N

80LPRINT

90DATA 139,2,5,8,241,0,0,241,8,5,2,0

100

DATA 139,124,0,66,4,64,36,16,2,16,12,0

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110

DATA 139,46,16,2,60,0,48,8,48,0,48,0

 

120

LPRINT

ESC$ "D" CHR$(ll)

CHR$(0)

 

130

LPRINT

CHR$(14) " U.S.

Exports"

 

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SG-10, SG-15 specifications

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