This program prints large letters on the screen. It works by making solid, 3D-looking letters out of the standard character set, copying the screen data into memory, and using machine code to plot the letters back on screen afterwards.

The characters are made in the procedure PROCcreate. Only numbers and capital letters are used, specified in the string valid$, otherwise there wouldn't be enough memory. First of all, OSWORD 10 is called to get the character definition for each letter in valid$. The definition is altered to produce a double-height, 'thin' letter, re-defined as characters 128 and 129. They are then printed at the graphics cursor (VDU5) at different positions and in different colours, to produce a solid shape.

As it happens, we end up with a graphical shape that fits exactly into the character spaces (i.e. the same area as if one text character was printed below another). This is equivalent to 32 bytes of memory in Mode 5. So the 32 bytes are copied into memory; the character set begins at T%, set to &5300 in line 60. This allows enough room for all 37 characters (10 numbers, 26 letters plus a space) to sit below the Mode 5 screen.