[Coco] [Color Computer] COCO BASIC ROM

[Coco_nut]

True, but aren't the characters the coco can display a limitation of the
hardware?

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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