Commodore VIC-20 - Page 45

If you wanted the word HELLO to PRINT diagonally from the
upper reft corner of the screen, you would type:
PRINT"
or
PRINT1
H
H
E [Q] L
O"
2. Reverse characters
Holding down thej-i1': ■■ 1 <€■■■/ and hitting Ifjjf^will cause a R!
to appear inside the quotes. This will make alt characters start
printing In reverse video (tike a negative of a picture). To end the
reverse prrnting^iit | ':■ i | Atj4- which prints a or else
PRINT a^S |i J. (Just ending the PRINT statement without a
semicolon or comma will take care of this.)
3. Color controls
Holding down the CTRL key with any of the 8 color keys will make
a special reversed character appear in the quotes. When the
character
is PRINTed, then the color change will occur.
Color
Appears as
ff you wanted to PRINT the word HELLO in cyan and the word
THERE in green, type:
PRINT ■
or
PRINT "
HELLO
HELLO \T THERE"
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THERE"