[Coco] ADOS

[Arthur Flexser]

You might want to configure ADOS to make RAM:POKE&H95C9,&H50 one of
your keystroke macros, so that you could just hit (say)
control-spacebar to get rid of the flickers at startup.  (Or the
decimal equivalent, to save a few characters of available macro
space.)

Art

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> well the flicker happens on my real coco2b
>
> but the following code will "fix it" in ram only:
>
> 10 RAM
> 20 POKE&H95C9,&H50
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
>> <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > it works tested only on mess for now, but when typing or scrolling the
>> > screen i noticed flickering horizontal lines, is the mode changed for
>> every
>> > print and then rechanged back ?
>>
>> I now recollect that indeed, the mode does get changed back and forth
>> in ADOS for the CoCo 1/2.  That's because Extended Basic keeps
>> resetting it, and there was no easy way to knock that out in the
>> earlier CoCo's where Basic runs out of ROM.
>>
>> But you shouldn't see the flickery horizontal lines on a real CoCo.  I
>> didn't observe it myself or hear any reports of it from users.
>>
>> Art
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