Date   : Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:16:14 -0000
From   : owner-bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: International fonts & mode 7


> This is not quite true. As far as I remember SAA5050 has several writable
> memory registers to program the additional symbols.
> There are not many of them. 

So can you program these registers in software, like user-definable
characters in other Modes with VDU23...? I always thought that you can't
redefine characters in Mode 7, or were the memory registers in the SAA5050
preprogrammed before being fitted into BBC Micros going abroad?

CD

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