Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn
From: Cassady Roop <croop@oregontrail.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 20:44:07 -0800
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Really?  I looked at the character set listed in the help file of
Assembly Studio 86, and it didn't list any characters associated with
the last few numbers before 255, so I assumed there weren't any.  So I
used 255, 250, and 245.  They seem to show up as black dots.

Dux Gregis wrote:
> 
> What do you mean?  There's no such thing as unprintable byte; every byte has
> an ascii char associated with it.
> 
> >
> >I intentionally used unprintable bytes so that they could not be
> >confused with anything already in _textShadow.
> >
> >>_textShadow shadows text, so if text shadow wasn't cleared by _clrScrn,
> you
> >> would see text, not black dots.  Who knows what the dots are from
> >>

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Re: A86: Re: _clrScrn

From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>