Date   : Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:10:56 +0000
From   : francis@... (Francis Devereux)
Subject: A bit of greek

On 11 Nov 2010, at 11:00, Ben Collier wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a rather perplexing problem with my BBC Master.
> 
> When running games (which I'm executing from a CF card via the Retroclinic 
reader setup and ADFS), certain games which appear to be trying to access
an extended character set for shapes (the sort of things used to draw pictures
in teletext, I imagine), are instead returning letters of the greek alphabet.
> 
> I'm guessing that either: 
> 
> 1) I have some horrible foreign version of one of the ROMs.
> 
> or
> 
> 2) Hopefully there's some option like *EXTCHAR SHAPES as opposed to *EXTCHAR
GREEK which will solve the problem.

The "convert" utility on the Master Welcome Disc fixes this problem in a
lot of games.

Francis