[Coco] True lowercase on Coco 2

[L. Curtis Boyle]

POKE 65314,xxx. Note that BASIC will reset it back to normal at the OK prompt. ,80, for example, will do lowercase, and a full green border.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On May 13, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Mike Pepe wrote:

> Ben, 
> Unless you build an external character ROM/driver circuit for the 6847,
> there are no magic commands to enable lower case since the internal
> character generator doesn't have lower case defined internally.
> 
> The exception to this is if you have a late CoCo 2 with the 6847T1 (these
> machines have a "B" suffix in their model number) - then a couple of pokes
> will turn on the internal lower case, which for some reason I can't find.
> Someone else may have it handy though,
> 
> -Mike
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
>> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Ben
>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:12 AM
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: [Coco] True lowercase on Coco 2
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I read this on the Color Computer wiki and was wondering if the commands
>> were out there somewhere?
>> 
>> "For compatibility reasons neither of these features were used (true
>> lowercase) and were not enabled in BASIC, however the resourceful user
>> could enable them by setting certain memory registers."
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> 
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