[Coco] OS-9 coco2b lowercase

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Quickest way I remember was "EXEC 41175" to get your Color basic version (hope I am remembering that right...)


On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> The answer is definitely "maybe"!
> 
> What's the method you used to get your Color Basic version, and what
> model number of CoCo 2B do you have?  Perhaps others could confirm or
> falsify that all Color Basic 1.3 CoCo 2s have true lowercase.  I'm
> reasonably certain that all "B" model numbers have the lowercase, but
> less convinced that those CoCo 2s and only those have Color Basic 1.3.
> 
> Art
> 
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yeah color basic 1.3 :P
>> 
>> the poke shows it
>> 
>> so that would be a good detection maybe?
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>>> I think you're mistaking your Extended Basic version (1.1?) which
>>> appears on the startup screen with the Color Basic version (1.3?) that
>>> you have to look for within the Color Basic ROM space ($A000-BFFF)
>>> somewhere (anybody got the PEEK address for the Ascii "3" in "1.3"?)
>>> Or possibly mistaking the Color Basic version for the Disk Basic
>>> version, if you're doing this with a disk controller in the cartridge
>>> slot.
>>> 
>>> I'm not certain whether all Color Basic 1.3 CoCos in fact had true
>>> lowercase.  That there are 4464 DRAM chips need not imply that the VDG
>>> is the lowercase-capable 6847A (?) version.
>>> 
>>> Also, I think Boisy might be mistaken in that I believe (memory is
>>> fuzzy about this, tho) that Color Basic 1.2, not 1.3, was the first to
>>> support 64K.  In fact, come to think of it, I'm not sure that 1.3
>>> wasn't introduced with the CoCo 3 and not used at all in CoCo 2s.
>>> 
>>> Art
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> No it's not!. My 26-3127B has 8x 44164 chips and basic 1.1 :P
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>>>> I believe it is.  Color BASIC 1.3 was created to accommodate the detection of 64K with the new 4464 DRAM chips.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> well it has color basic 1.3. Is it a good indicator ?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:57 AM, L. Curtis Boyle
>>>>>> <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> POKE 65314,80 give full green background as well as lowercase (no black border). The print vector in BASIC will normally change this back on you, though, when you return to the OK prompt. If you are running OS-9/NitrOS9, you should be able to patch the VDG driver to keep this mode on at all times as well (somebody did do that way back for OS-9 Level 1, version 2.x, from what I remember).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Oct 19, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Sean James wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at ...> writes:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Is there any tool or command to activate the lowercase for coco2b ? I
>>>>>>>>> can make a basic09 command, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Also, is there a way to detect by software a coco2b ?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thxs,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Felipe
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Poke 65314,16 works on my Korean CoCo II to turn on lower case letters.
>>>>>>>> As far as detecting the VDP, I don't know.
>>>>>>>> 
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