[Coco] 44-color display mode code images available

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Sun Mar 3 17:44:37 EST 2013


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 04:48:51PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:25:17PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > You might remember my 44-color display mode project from last Summer.
> > I'm planning to use it as the basis for a sliding puzzle game in the
> > CoCo Coding Contest.
> > 
> > 	http://vdgtricks.blogspot.com/
> > 
> > I spent some time yesterday cleaning-up some of the code so I could
> > generate CLOADM'able WAV files and LOADM'able BIN files.  I also
> > include a DSK image full of the latter.
> > 
> > 	http://www.tuxdriver.com/download/vdgtricks/
> > 
> > If you have a CoCo 1/2 or a Dragon then you might want to try loading
> > the code images above? :-)
> > 
> > CoCo Forever!
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > P.S.  If you saw the blog post yesterday and already downloaded the
> > pictures of my son, then you might still enjoy downloading the new
> > images of Lena Söderberg that are there now.  The other pictures are
> > still available in the "2013-02-09" subdirectory under the download
> > link above.
> 
> Unimpressed?  Or just too lazy to download this and run it
> yourself? :-)
> 
> In the latter case, you can see some pics that I posted on Facebook.
> If you don't have an account, you can just look here:
> 
> 	http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4326187712188.2182192.1212010700&type=1&l=13314f06c9
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> John
> 
> P.S.  Please keep in mind that this display is on a CoCo 1...

Now, updated to work with PAL CoCo machines as well.  I _think_
that the PAL version might work with the Dragon 32 as well.  FWIW,
I'm also told that the existing _NTSC_ version worked for the Dragon
64, since it hides the extra hsync signals from the software...

	http://vdgtricks.blogspot.com/2013/03/curiouser-and-curiouser.html

Enjoy!

John
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