CBTFONT An alternate character font for CBterm's 80 column screen. --------------------------------------------------------------- All CBterm/C64 files are (c) 1985 by Chrisdos. All rights reserved. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Special thanks to Aaron Linder [73605,1714] who whipped up this font. The 80 column screen on CBterm uses a High Res font image that has a 3 by 8 grid for each character, with one pixel between each character. This proves to be hard to read on some color monitors. The CBTFONT file contains a new 4 by 8 font. Each character is a bit wider, as there is now no space between characters. This may improve the readability on some screens. Use: ---- CBTFONT will be installed in a copy of CBTERM on your disk and will replace the original character set. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP COPY OF CBTERM ! Always keep an orignal copy of CBterm safe incase you crash your working copy. Download the CBTFNT (.BIN or .IMG) file as CBTFONT on your disk. You should download it as a PRG file, althogh it is not a program in itself. LOAD CBTerm into your C64, but DO NOT RUN IT ! Place the disk with the CBTFONT file in the drive. YOU MUST ENTER THE FOLLOWING 2 LINES DIRECTLY, WITHOUT LINE NUMBERS: (Be carefull as you type!) open8,8,8,"cbtfont,p,r":poke58,1:get#8,a$,a$ (and hit <RETURN>) poke58,1:forx=5441to6200:get#8,a$:pokex,asc(a$+chr$(0)):next:close 8 (and hit <RETURN>) The first line opens the disk file with the new font, and throws away the first 2 bytes. It does this as soon as you hit <RETURN>. The second line reads the next 760 bytes and pokes it into CBterm over the original font. The POKE58,1 is required to allow the GET statements to works in basic's direct mode. With out them, you would get an Illegal Direct error. After the drive light goes out, you may save the new version of CBterm to disk. You might use: SAVE"CBTERMF",8 You should not use the original name first off, as you might want to save the old copy of CBterm also. If you are using an auto boot program that needs to find the name CBTERM on disk, then first rename the original version to something like CBTERM.OLD, then the new version can be renamed CBTERM. After you have saved the copy, you can enter RUN and check the 80 column screen with the new font. The new version on disk will also have this new font as well. This method of using DIRECT MODE in basic is an example of doing 2 things at one time. You have loaded CBterm into memory, and since it is in a BASIC format, can SAVE it again. Had you loaded a new program on top of it, you would not have been able to resave CBterm. However, using DIRECT mode, the pointers for LOAD/SAVE were not messed up, allowing you to RUN a small basic program, while still keeping the original program in memory. -Chrisdos
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