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I read an article years ago (30 or so, I was still in high school) about 42-character text on the Spectrum which drew 6x8 characters instead of 8x8. You could

I read an article years ago (30 or so, I was still in high school) about 42-character text on the Spectrum which drew 6x8 characters instead of 8x8. You could do 40 col text with an 8 pixel border down each side, which might look quite nice.

stevekemp 5y ago
Yes there were a few programs that used smaller characters to increase the amount of text that could be displayed upon the screen. The first one that comes to mind is the text-editor "tasword" which allowed 64 characters per line, instead of the default 32: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasword