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From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco)
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Subject: Re: VIC LARGE characters
Keywords: visually impaired
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Date: 20 Mar 90 01:02:55 GMT
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In article <26050E84.D0E@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes:
>A visually-impaired ham in this area wants to get on packet radio.
>He owns a minimal-memory VIC-20 computer, but has trouble reading
>even its already-large letters.  Is there a relatively easy way
>to make even bigger letters?

Yes, the VIC-II chip has a mode where it generates double high characters; we
found this sufficient at the local high school (doubling the width results in
an almost useless 11x12 display... 22x12 is almost usable).

I do not have the code for this.  It eats RAM to define the new character set.
I don't recall details, but if you really want I could probably write it in
an hour or so.  Send mail...

... Joe