Commodore Plus 4 - Color and reverse printing

COLOR
AND
REVERSE
PRINTING
Your Plus/4 can display numbers, letters and graphic symbols in the 16 —
different colors. You can also display these characters in reverse, wiih
the primary (cursor) and background colors reversed
STEP1
STEP 2
STEP 3
STEP 4
STEP 5
Clear your screen by pressing
CLR'HOME
SHIFT and
Hold down the control key and press the
rvs ON key
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Release the keys and hold down the space bar (the long
bar at the bottom of the keyboard).
Hold down the space bar as long as you want. While you
hold down the space bar, a line the same color as the letters
on your screen should get longer. If the line gets to the end
of the row, it continues on the next row.
Release the space bar (but don't press the
return key)
STEP 6 Hold down the CONTROL key and press one of
the color keys (not a color that's already on your screen)
As soon as you do this, the cursor will be the color of the
key you pressed.
STEP 7 Hold the space bar down again. Now your Plus/4 wilt draw
i me ii the new color Continue changing colors ■:. Eh ihe
CONTROL, or O keys and the color keys.
Then hold down the space bar to make different colored lines.
STEP 8 Turn off reverse print by holding down CONTROL
and pressing the RVS OFF key Pressing the
RETURN key also turns off reverse printing.
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Try typing some letter in reverse. Just hold down CONTROL and
RVS ON to turn on reverse, and then type whatever you want. Reverse
letters make excellent headlines You can also use them to highlight
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