What means
A ready-made bomb picture for text-screen games.
Sharp's MZ-700 (1982) stored it in its European second character table; the Amstrad CPC BASIC set also included it. The MZ's second table held game graphics and could not be typed directly: its built-in BASIC language needed POKE, a command that writes to memory, to display one. Unicode preserved these legacy graphics for text exchange.
Part of the collection
Combination ideas
1For a mini-scene: bomb first, then the mushroom cloud.
Questions people ask
1Why does show up as a box?
A box means the active font lacks the glyph; BabelStone Pseudographica v. 16.0.0 (2024-05-30) includes it.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- cpc · mz · sprite · retro
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
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\1CC63Enter in Word
Type
1CC63 without U+, then press Alt+X.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CC63";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%A3
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.