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From: D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>
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Subject: Re: Retrieve hires pixel value
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 18:41:57 -0000 (UTC)
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Zellyn wrote:
> Is there a generally accepted way of retrieving a hires pixel value
> (on/off) by x,y coordinates from BASIC? I assume someone posted a simple
> BASIC or poked-assembly routine to do it back in the day. I feel like I
> probably knew how to do it in the 80s :-)
> 

Beagle BASIC will give you an HSCRN command which I think will do what you
want.

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