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Figure 4.5 Cell data structure based on the number of character colors, part 2

For 8 bits / dot (64 bytes / cell)

Bit 15 8 70 
┌─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
+ 00H │ Dot 0-0 data │ Dot 0-1 data │
├─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
+ 02H │ Data of dot 0-2 │ Data of dot 0-3 │
├─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
: │ : │ : │
: │ :: │
: │ :: │
: │ : │ : │
├─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
+ 1EH │ Dot 7-6 data │ Dot 7-7 data │
└─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
Dot 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
┌──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┐ 
Dot 0│00│01│02│03│04│05│06│07│ 
├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤ 
1│08│09│0A│0B│0C│0D│0E│0F│ 
├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤ 
2 │ 10 │ 11 │ 12 │ 13 │ 14 │ 15 │ 16 │ 17 │ 
├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤ 
3│18│19│1A│1B│1C│1D│1E│1F│ 
├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤ Cell 4│20│21│22│23│24│25│26│27│ 
├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤ 
5│28│29│2A│2B│2C│2D│2E│2F│ 
├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤ 
6 │ 30 │ 31 │ 32 │ 33 │ 34 │ 35 │ 36 │ 37 │ 
├──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┼──┤ 
7 │ 38 │ 39 │ 3A │ 3B │ 3C │ 3D │ 3E │ 3F │ 
└──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┘ 
[Note 1]
The upper left corner of the cell is dot 0-0, and from there to the right are dot 0-1, dot 0-2, dot 0-3, ....
[Note 2]
The number in the cell is the VRAM address (hexadecimal number) of each dot (2 dots) data based on the VRAM address of the data of dots 0-0 and 0-1.

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