[Coco] 44-color display mode code images available

[Joel Ewy]

On 03/03/2013 04:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> 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
This looks very cool, John.  I intend to load your pics up on my old 
CoCo (1) and see what they look in person.  It might just be exciting 
enough to motivate me to figure out how to use git so I can convert some 
photos of my own.

JCE