Classic Computer Magazine Archive COMPUTE! ISSUE 59 / APRIL 1985 / PAGE 10

READERS' FEEDBACK

The Editors and Readers of COMPUTE!

 

Lowercase On The TI
Lowercase characters on the TI-99/4A appear as small capital letters. In some of my programs, I'd like to have a normal lowercase character set. I've tried many times to redefine the lowercase letters, but my results have been disappointing. Could you provide me with some character definitions for lowercase letters?

Jim Tope

The following program redefines the lowercase character set with lowercase letters:

100 GOSUB 1000
110 CALL CLEAR
120 PRINT "abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwx
    yz"
130 FOR I=1 TO 2000
140 NEXT I

150 STOP
999 REM LOWERCASE SET
1000 FOR I=97 TO 122
1010 READ A$
1020 CALL CHAR(I,A$)
1030 NEXT I
1040 RETURN
1050 DATA 00000038043C643C,00404040
     78444478,0000001C2020201C
1060 DATA 000404043C44443C,00000038
     44784030,0018242070202020
1070 DATA 0000003844300438,00404040
     78444444,0010001010101010
1080 DATA 0004000404042418,00202024
     28302824,0010101010101010
1090 DATA 0000006854544444,00000058
     64444444,0000003844444438
1100 DATA 0000007844784040,00000030
     44300404,0000005864404040
1110 DATA 0000003040380478,00101038
     10101000,0000004444444438
1120 DATA 0000004444282810,00000044
     44545428,0000004428102844
1130 DATA 00000044443C0438,0000003C
     0408103C

    To use this lowercase character set in your programs, add the subroutine beginning at line 1000 containing the character definitions.