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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HIRES question
Message-ID: <91035.220456ART100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 03:04:56 GMT
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In article <48811@apple.Apple.COM>, dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) says:
>
>I didn't remember offhand, but I remembered that CALL 62454 would fill the
>current screen with the last used color.  62454 is $F3F6, so I looked and
>found it using $E6 as the high byte of the pointer to the memory to fill.
>
>$E6 is 230, so you want to POKE 230,32 to draw to page 1 and POKE 230,64
>to draw to page 2.

That's one way of finding out :-)

When's the last time you could do something like this on a mac?

Of course, 230 is easier to remember than the number you did!