Program:	CharMap 83
Author:		Ahmed El-Helw
Date:		August 23, 1998
Platform:	Ti-83 SOS
Size:		146

Well, I was working on a program today, when I wondered if there was a Ti charecter that looked
similar that I could use.  So, I started looking, and realized that there was no way to know except by reading Ti's descriptions.  So hence came the idea.. to make a program to display all the charecters on the TI.  There are 254 of them, but it displays 255.

Simply load charmap.83p onto your calculator and run it through SOS.  You will see the title screen, charecter, and number.  Press the right/left arrow keys to browse through the charecters. Pressing any other key will exit.  This can help in asm programming.  For example, let us say that you like charecter number 22 and wanted to use it in your program.  You would do something like this:


ld a,22
call _putc		;Displays the charecter w/fixed width [large] font
			;wherever the curcol/currow variables point to.

OR
--

ld a,22			;Displays the charecter w/set width font [small]
call _vputmap		;wherever the pencol/penrow variables are pointing too.

Then there is a question of why I didn't display them in hex, even though in the TI document, they are in Hex.  For one thing, this way works just as well as the hex.  Secondly, the hex converter loop that Joe made just takes up more memory, when it isn't really needed.


Special Thanks:
-Joe Wingerbermuhle - Optomized the program for me, from 167 bytes to 146 bytes.
-David Piper - For making an 86 asm program like this, from where I also got the idea.


Ahmed El-Helw
ahmedre@bellsouth.net
http://hail.icestorm.net/asm/asm.html