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

[Steve Ostrom]

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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