[Coco] SAVEMing CoCo 3 Hi-res screens

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Sun Feb 20 18:02:46 EST 2005


There was also a routine by Steve Bjork that added HSAVE and HLOAD commands to
Basic.  It was posted on Compuserve and/or Delphi for a while.

Art

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Willard Goosey wrote:

> >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:41:42 -0500
> >From: Diego Barizo <diegoba at adinet.com.uy>
> 
> >Talking about Hi-res graphics...
> >How can I SAVEM a HSCREEN?
> >I can't find the memory address. I guess it's a virtual one?
> 
> 
> 
> 5 'HISAVE
> 10 INPUT"NAME:";N$
> 20 FORI=&H70TO&H73
> 30 POKE&HFFA2,I
> 40 F$=N$+"/HR"+CHR$(I-64)
> 50 SAVEMF$,&H4000,&H5FFF,44539
> 60 NEXTI
> 70 POKE6HFFA2,&H7A
> 
> 
> 5 'HILOAD
> 10 INPUT"NAME:";N$
> 20 INPUT"HSCREEN#";H
> 30 HSCREENH
> 40 FORI=&H70TO&H73
> 50 POKE&HFFA2,I
> 60 F$=N$+"/HR"+CHR$(I-64)
> 70 LOADMF$
> 80 NEXTI
> 90 POKE&HFFA2,&H7A
> 
> 
> These are copyright 1989 Falsoft & Bill Burnico.  
> 
> They result in 4 8K files, each with a quarter of the screen (assuming
> HSCREEN 2, which is the only one I ever used with this...)
> 
> I'm probably the only person who ever used this.  I'm afraid my
> interest in graphics is rather occasional.
> 
> I believe I've seen a stand-alone save-as-MGE assembly routine that's
> a slightly more standard route...
> 
> On my webpage http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/ I have an OS-9 utility to
> convert the resulting file set to a VEF.  I have a newer version on a
> half-crashed OS9 hard drive that knows more about palettes.
> 
> >
> >Diego
> 
> Willard
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