[Coco] [Color Computer] COCO BASIC ROM

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 17:51:08 EDT 2013


You can modifiy the rom to use alt and ctrl key as modifiers and create
another sets.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Coco_nut <nix.thinkpenguin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well if you want to look at the asm for basic then you can find it here:
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Programming/Source/Color%20Basic/
>
> but the coco hardware doesn't support all keys. I believe that the Coco3
> keyboard matrix was entirely used up when they added the extra buttons to
> it. There is no way to add more without a large modification to the
> hardware. If you wanted your coco emulator to support all the keys then you
> would need to modify the source code to the emulator. Out of curiosity,
> what keys would you add and why?
>
> --StephenR
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Ben Jimenez <ben_jimenez at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if it's possible to modify the BASIC rom so that it
> > supports a full set of keyboard characters? The reason is that I'm
> planning
> > on running a COCO emulator full time on an old pc but wanted to have
> > support for all the keys.
> >
> > Ben
> >
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