[Coco] True lowercase on Coco 2

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Chris - the POKE 359,57 will work, but it will screw up PRINT commands to printer, tape or disk files, so one has to be careful. :)

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On May 13, 2013, at 1:38 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

> 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
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> 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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