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

[Little John]

No, not even the CoCo 2 mode of the GIME can support these semigraphics 
modes. Only SG24 is supported.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] further adventures with plug'n'power/x10



> There are some older Mark Data games for the Coco that used some of these 

> now unsupported semi-graphics modes.  I think that Cave Hunter was one of 

> these.  You needed to travel to the bottom of a maze, if I recall 

> correctly, and pick up gold bars.  The play was really good, but the Coco3 

> cannot handle that video format and so that good game is no longer 

> playable on many Coco setups.  (Does the Coco1/2 mode on the Coco3 support 

> these old semigraphics formats?)  A few other programs written in those 

> early days are similarly affected.  I'm not sure what the draw was to 

> program in these modes, except for maybe inhanced colors and better 

> resolution?

>

> -- Steve --

>

>

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

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

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

> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:19 AM

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

>

>

>> 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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