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Students enjoyed programming in Commodore Basic with line numbers and playing video games depicted in "PETSCII" character graphics - the machine was unable to process a single pixel but people made up for it with amazing intuition.
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For this, they changed the encoding of the string "MICROSOFT!" that was hidden in every BASIC since 1.1 from XORed ASCII into PETSCII with the upper two bits randomly set - this way, the text would be just as obfuscated, but it the decoder would be shorter on PET systems.
pagetable.com Michael Steil 2008
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Every version since 2. 0a had the PETSCII version of the "MICROSOFT!" text in it - and so did every version of BASIC for 6809.
pagetable.com Michael Steil 2008
alexz commented on the word PETSCII
This refers to the letters and graphical character elements in the Commodore 64. Each character was in a 8pixel by 8pixel square.
January 27, 2022