[Coco] Young programmers....

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 09:45:15 EDT 2009


On 6/14/09, Aaron Banerjee wrote:
>
> While going through the Coco 3 manual, he noticed a grid
> worksheet for the 64x32 text mode.  I thought we just had 32, 40, and
> 80 columns on the Coco 3.  He was wondering why "WIDTH 64" did not
> work.  I'm assuming the 64x32 is just the set/reset (that uses text
> characters and is therefore a text mode), but it never really says
> that.  There isn't some weird or "Easter Egg" text mode on the Coco 3
> (analogous to some of the Coco 1/2 semigraphics modes) is there?


You're correct. The 64 x 32 worksheet is for the SET / RESET graphics
used in the CoCo 1/2 text screen (Semigraphics 4).

Darren



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