[Coco] Disto SC add-ons

[John Eric]

that's the one :-) je




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From: Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 2, 2009 12:35:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Disto SC add-ons

Try this link Roger:

<ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/VARIOUS/TUTORIALS/HARDWARE/FULLTURN/SECTIONS/FullTurn_P125_134.pdf>

The article is called "Increasing Character Display".

Darren

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On 1/1/09, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 10:11 PM 1/1/2009, you wrote:
>>Roger, Tony did an article on this board for Rainbow, I think it was
>>called "Increasing Character Display" and if I'm not mistaken, it's
>>in "A Full Turn of The Screw" which I've found on the maltedmedia
>>ftp. It gives the CoCo's addresses for the register map - i think it
>>was mapped in such a way that you write the address to the chip via
>>a port, then you read or wrote the data to that location, and so on.
>>It worked with basic and OS-9 - the original C-DOS had the D80
>>ON/OFF commands. I think the one you have supported smooth scrolling
>>(by pixel rather than character). It should be simple enough, with
>>the turn of the screw article, to write a disk basic driver -
>>intercept the RAM Hook for video and route it to the driver. -J.eric
>
>
>
> I found the directory of Full Turn of the Screw article archives but
> can't find anything about the Disto SC or add-on cards.  Can you
> point me to the directory or file you're referring to?
>
> Thanks
> Roger Taylor
>

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