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The
VIC
20
User
Guide
mode.
For
a good example
of
the opposite extreme, enter the following
statement:
10
POKE
7680,102
You might have expected that POKEing the checkerboard character
into screen memory would display a checkerboard four dots wide. Instead,
the display shows a set of stripes. The reason can be found in character
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Cyan
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Light Orange
Irrffl
Blue
FIGURE
6·6. Multicolor character design