<s>
MouseText	B-Device
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
32	O
graphical	O
characters	O
designed	O
by	O
Bruce	O
Tognazzini	O
and	O
first	O
implemented	O
in	O
the	O
Apple	O
IIc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
were	O
then	O
retrofitted	O
to	O
the	O
Apple	B-Device
IIe	I-Device
forming	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Enhanced	O
IIe	B-Device
upgrade	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
slightly	O
revised	O
version	O
was	O
then	O
released	O
with	O
the	O
Apple	B-Device
IIGS	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
including	O
box-drawing	O
characters	O
,	O
MouseText	B-Device
made	O
it	O
possible	O
to	O
display	O
simple	O
text	B-Application
user	I-Application
interfaces	I-Application
resembling	O
the	O
Macintosh	O
graphical	B-Application
user	I-Application
interface	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
the	O
Apples	O
lacked	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
display	O
user-defined	O
characters	O
in	O
text	O
mode	O
,	O
all	O
GUI-like	O
displays	O
beyond	O
crude	O
ASCII	O
art	O
approximations	O
had	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
slower	O
and	O
more	O
memory-hungry	O
graphical	O
mode	O
before	O
MouseText	B-Device
was	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MouseText	B-Device
resulted	O
in	O
an	O
eightfold	O
increase	O
in	O
display	O
speed	O
for	O
mouse	O
applications	O
,	O
bringing	O
such	O
text-based	B-Application
applications	O
as	O
word	O
processors	O
up	O
to	O
the	O
same	O
speed	O
as	O
the	O
original	O
Macintosh	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Word	O
processors	O
running	O
on	O
the	O
two	O
computers	O
would	O
not	O
be	O
confused	O
with	O
one	O
another	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
as	O
the	O
mouse	O
under	O
MouseText	B-Device
would	O
move	O
in	O
discrete	O
jumps	O
from	O
character	O
cell	O
to	O
character	O
cell	O
,	O
rather	O
than	O
the	O
smooth	O
movement	O
of	O
the	O
Macintosh	O
,	O
and	O
text	O
was	O
still	O
monospaced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
version	O
of	O
MouseText	B-Device
in	O
the	O
Apple	O
IIc	O
included	O
a	O
depiction	O
of	O
a	O
figure	O
running	O
,	O
perhaps	O
to	O
portray	O
the	O
action	O
of	O
running	O
a	O
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MouseText	B-Device
characters	O
replaced	O
a	O
redundant	O
set	O
of	O
inverse	O
uppercase	O
characters	O
( @	O
,	O
A	O
..	O
Z	O
,	O
[	O
,	O
\, ],^,_	O
)	O
in	O
the	O
Alternate	O
character	O
set	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
two	O
main	O
ways	O
to	O
put	O
MouseText	B-Device
characters	O
on	O
the	O
screen	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Enable	O
the	O
80-column	O
firmware	O
(	O
which	O
also	O
enables	O
the	O
alternate	O
character	O
set	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
use	O
the	O
control	O
character	O
sequence	O
0x0F	O
,	O
0x1B	O
(	O
15	O
,	O
27	O
)	O
to	O
turn	O
inverse	O
and	O
MouseText	B-Device
printing	O
on	O
,	O
followed	O
by	O
characters	O
in	O
the	O
A	O
..	O
Z	O
set	O
,	O
followed	O
by	O
the	O
sequence	O
0x18	O
,	O
0x0E	O
(	O
24	O
,	O
14	O
)	O
to	O
turn	O
MouseText	B-Device
and	O
inverse	O
printing	O
off	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
in	O
Applesoft	B-Language
BASIC	I-Language
the	O
following	O
code	O
fragment	O
will	O
display	O
the	O
MouseText	B-Device
representation	O
of	O
a	O
folder	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
13.0	O
of	O
the	O
Unicode	O
Standard	O
,	O
released	O
March	O
2020	O
,	O
includes	O
all	O
of	O
the	O
MouseText	B-Device
characters	O
except	O
the	O
two	O
Apple	O
logos	O
,	O
mostly	O
in	O
the	O
Symbols	O
for	O
Legacy	O
Computing	O
block	O
.	O
</s>
