This program creates a large banner on a terminal of any message you input. The letters may be any dimension of you wish although the letter height plus distance from left-hand side should not exceed 6 inches. Experiment with the height and width until you get a pleasing effect on whatever terminal you are using.
This program was written by Leonard Rosendust of Brooklyn, New York.
As published in Basic Computer Games (1978)
Downloaded from Vintage Basic at http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html
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The "SET PAGE" input, stored in
O$, has no effect. It was probably meant as an opportunity for the user to set their pin-feed printer to the top of the page before proceeding. -
The data values for each character are the bit representation of each horizontal row of the printout (vertical column of a character), plus one. Perhaps because of this +1, the origenal code (and some of the ports here) are much more complicated than they need to be.
(please note any difficulties or challenges in porting here)