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I seem to recall that there were characters made up of all the options of quarter squares, so you could have a pixellated display of 64x48 at least edit: seems

by clort 9y ago

I seem to recall that there were characters made up of all the options of quarter squares, so you could have a pixellated display of 64x48 at least edit: seems like HN doesn't support these characters but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements I made a 'zooming through a tunnel' program in assembler once, using them

zimpenfish 9y ago
You are, indeed, correct - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81_character_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81_character_set Although in the context of developing on small screens, they're not very helpful. (And if you redefined the character set on the fly, you could make things like Forty-Niner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTTWMIQVznM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTTWMIQVznM )