Keyboard Graphics - Commodore VIC-20 User Manual

KEYBOARD GRAPHICS
One of the special features of your VIC 20 is the graphics
keyset. Most of the keys have two graphic characters printed
on the front. You can display these graphics on the screen,
or, if you have a Commodore dot matrix printer, print them
on paper along with all the other keyboard symbols.
To display the graphic on the left side of trie key, hold down
the Commodore key while pressing the graphic key, to
display the right side graphic, hold down the | ■■.-;!<:■< I key and
type the graphic you want.
VIC TIP:
Caution...if you push both the SHIFT and Commodore keys at the
same time, you will switch to upperdower case mode. In upper/lower
case, only the left side graphics are available. To get back to upper
case/graphics mode, push | ■ | and Q together.
The easiest way to use VIC graphics is to type the
COMMODORE p? or I ,:, „ I key, and the graphic symbol
you want to display from the keyboard. For example, type
the following:
You should see a blue heart printed on your screen. Try
typing some other graphic keys. Here are some other keys
you might want to try:
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