my friend: "Are you redefining the character set in a VCCC entry?"
me: "Ah, yep. I sure am."

Author: OxC0FFEE (Kim Slawson)
Category: Christmas Challenge
System:   Atari XL/XE
Language: TurboBASIC XL
Len source code: 206
Instructions:
Open VCC2025final.atr in an Atari emulator like Altirra or Atari800MacX.
Description:
Clear the screen. Draw the horizontal and vertical "bones" of the
snowflake. Define a string containing 32b (4 8x8 characters) of the
4 corners of the snowflake. Copy the character set from ROM into RAM.
Copy the four characters from the string into character set RAM.
Redefine the character set to use the new RAM copy. Bitblit the four
quadrants of the snowflake using the TBXL TEXT command.
Comments:
"I have only made this [code] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) Lettres provinciales.