[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

[David]

James Diffendaffer wrote:


>I found the HOT CoCo article with the lowercase mod.

>

>I got to thinking about it and by adding a larger ROM and a paging

>circuit + a register to select different character set pages you could

>scroll the characters just by writing a single byte.

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>It does require creating lots of character tables and a screen to go

>with them. 

>

>This would even let you make the demo in Basic!  The scroll takes

>place with a single poke!  Sure it's cheating but it would work!

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The problem is that in the classical Matrix-style demo, each character 
falls at a different rate - so scrolling the whole text screen isn't 
useful in this case

David