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### Banner
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This program creates a large banner on a terminal of any message you input. The letters may be any dimension of you wish although the letter height plus distance from left-hand side should not exceed 6 inches. Experiment with the height and width until you get a pleasing effect on whatever terminal you are using.
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This program was written by Leonard Rosendust of Brooklyn, New York.
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As published in Basic Computer Games (1978)
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- [Atari Archives](https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=10)
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- [Annarchive](https://annarchive.com/files/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition.pdf#page=25)
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Downloaded from Vintage Basic at
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http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html
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#### Porting Notes
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- The "SET PAGE" input, stored in `O$`, has no effect. It was probably meant as an opportunity for the user to set their pin-feed printer to the top of the page before proceeding.
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- The data values for each character are the bit representation of each horizontal row of the printout (vertical column of a character), plus one. Perhaps because of this +1, the original code (and some of the ports here) are much more complicated than they need to be.
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(please note any difficulties or challenges in porting here)
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