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# The Jungle Jim: ROM Character Generator, Part I

First of two parts on the TS1000 ROM character generator table: 512 bytes at addresses 7680–8191 defining 64 characters as 8-byte sets. Explains how to calculate a character’s start address (7680 + 8 * CODE A$) and includes a BASIC program that displays any character as a large bit-pattern grid by reading and converting each byte from decimal to binary. Demonstrates the character ‘A’ at addresses 7984–7991. Excerpted from The Timex/Sinclair User’s Encyclopedia.