ASCII smiley code used for the main character in Rogue

Question

What is the terminal code for the old square ASCII character used in the original Rogue game?

Here's a game that uses it as its main character:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIzCGir58Y&feature=related

Answer 1

That chars equals to SOH (White face) & SOT (Black Face)

Binary  Oct Dec Hex Abbr    [a] [b]    Name
000 0001    001 1   01  SOH ␁   ^A     Start of Header
000 0010    002 2   02  STX ␂   ^B     Start of Text

Answer 2

The display system for the original IBM PC in text mode had a very simple memory mapping for the 80x24 text screen. You could poke values into bytes in a certain area of memory and characters would appear on the display. The characters for each byte value were determined by a video ROM which had bitmapped display characters for all 256 values of each byte. This included displayable characters for ASCII control characters (0-31).

Many contemporary printers had the same character set and could often be set into a literal-print mode where these control characters were printed rather than acted on (a carriage return would be printed as a character, it would not cause the print head to return to the left edge of the paper).

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