[Coco] I now have working CoCo 1-2 HDB-DOS 16K ROM

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Sun Feb 9 17:07:38 EST 2014


Juan, is it necessary that each column mode have its own font?  Couldn't
you just use a different graphics display mode to stretch or shrink the
letters to obtain a new column mode?

Art


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, then the fonts would occupy too much ROM space. I want to put
> other things in there.
>
> Say, how big is SideKick?
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > make a 40 and 32 mode to :)
> >
> > On Feb 9, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...with my spiffy text-on-graphics mode already resident. All you have
> > to do is type SCREEN 1 after boot. (I set the default PMODE to 4.)
> >
> > EXEC &HE005 -> 64 cols mode
> > EXEC &HE002 -> 51 cols mode
> >
> > And I didn't have to squash any messages. All I needed was to change
> > the placement of a subroutine so I could change some JSR into BSR and
> > I got the three bytes I needed.
> >
> > Source patch against current repository version:
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch
> >
> > ROMs: (You can use the Becker one with DW for XRoar)
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16kroms.zip
> >
> > Nice for those CoCoEPROMPacks!
> >
> > Juan
> >
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