[Coco] further adventures with plug'n'power/x10

[Little John]

There was a fellow back arounf 1994 or 1995 that wrote a CoCo3 Disk Version 
software that would work with the PNP Controller and a CoCo 3 - I can't 
offhand remember what it was called but I'll start digging and see what I 
can come up with. I wish the GIME chip supported all the semigraphics modes, 
but I think it only supports semigraphics 24. A long time ago, sockmaster 
had written a program (I no longer have it unfortunatly) that duplicated the 
WIDTH32 screen on an HSCREEN. I remember it was quite amazing and worked 
with everything I threw at it - so it should, theoretically be possible to 
write a "semigraphics emulator" in a similar fashion and then the PNP Cart 
might be run from RAM under such an emulation. SockMaster... are you there - 
if anyone can do this, I think it would be you.
-John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] further adventures with plug'n'power/x10



> Hi,

>

> Thanks.

> Now where is my CoCo 2, November time change is coming up soon.

>

> I hope it will not be like my very old Mitac VGA monitor, it worked a 

> while with my old laptop today but connecting it up to my just born "W7" 

> HTPC, it lasted only a short time and now will not power on.

>

> SHF

>

>

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Little John" <sales at gimechip.com>

> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 6:46 PM

> Subject: Re: [Coco] further adventures with plug'n'power/x10

>

>

>> The CoCo 2 PNP Controller cart cannot work on the CoCo 3 at all as it 

>> uses a semigraphics mode not supported by the GIME chip. Some of the Mark 

>> Data Games used these modes as well and are hopeless on the CoCo 3 (the 

>> Pac Attac games for example)

>> .

>> -Big John

>

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