Commodore VIC-20 User Manual page 36

Change to other colors as you feel like it. Make the color bars
as thick or thin as you like. Enjoy this newly discovered ability
of the VIC that puts a little color into your life.
Now, type | ■■•■■ | j$£&T and hit the space bar.
Nothing happens except blank spaces. Type
and the color bar reappears. Try typing some letters
in "reverse". Reverse letters make excellent headlines and are
often used to highlight special words and numbers. You can
also use reverse characters inside a program. For example, try
this:
NEW
hold this while
I0PRIN1 |<:i IixqI# VIC20";
20 GOTO 10
RUN
To get ready for the next chapter, type
and type the word NEW and
From now on, use
\^ this method to ^
"" erase unwanted
programs and
start "NEW"
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