wyerd Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Does anyone have the hex codes for the normal and large character sets as featured in the GROMs that they can post, or point me in the direction of where I can find them? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Does anyone have the hex codes for the normal and large character sets as featured in the GROMs that they can post, or point me in the direction of where I can find them? Thank you! There are 3 character sets: large caps, normal caps and small caps. The large caps is the only set that is 8 bytes/char as it sits in whichever console GROM it is stored. The other two are stored in only 7 bytes/char to conserve space because the top (bottom ?) row is all zeros. If you know TMS9900 Assembler, you can get them into the Pattern Descriptor Table and read them out from there. It is very easy to do this from Forth. ...lee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 10, 2017 Author Share Posted December 10, 2017 If you know TMS9900 Assembler, you can get them into the Pattern Descriptor Table and read them out from there. Now, that's a challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Now, that's a challenge If you have Heiner Martin's TI Intern (on WHTech), they are listed on pages 105 – 107. You will need to remember that the Normal Caps (listed as “Small Caps”) must have a 0 byte added at the beginning or end of every 7 bytes. The same is true for the lowercase set (I call it “small caps” because that is what they are). The so-called “Standard Character Set” is composed of the large characters that show on the startup screen, I believe, and they are a full 8 bytes per character. ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 (edited) Does anyone have the hex codes for the normal and large character sets as featured in the GROMs that they can post, or point me in the direction of where I can find them? Thank you! Edited December 10, 2017 by sometimes99er 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted December 10, 2017 Author Share Posted December 10, 2017 large.txt normal.and.small.txt What a star! Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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