BAM: PUTSTRING prototyping

[CharlieJV]

Central Point Software and Norton Utilities did this kind of thing back in the 80's and 90's quite a bit. They developed custom character sets that when used you would swear a text only screen (SCREEN 0) was a graphics screen. It was a cool trick to spruce up DOS era software.

Now I'm even more curious about this old-school approach to graphics.

Here's an interesting thread of discussion over at retrocomputing.stackexchange: Which computers had redefinable character sets?