[Coco] Nitros9 quick screen questions.

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

You can open other windows that have different setting but change the
current window or terminal is not possible and I never understood the
reason for not allowing it. Ok, there is the setting that is performed in
the device init.

try:

shell -i=/w1&
shell -i=/w7&

then you must press CLEAR

The /term device you can only change through xmode and then cobbler. For
other windows, you can use xmode prior to opening it. Then you can change
if you want in 80 or 40 columns, which colors, etc. Keep in mind if you
cobbler the os9boot all the current device settings will be burned into the
boot. But the xmode parameters are a little obscure...

try this:

xmode /term fgc=02 bdc=00 bgc=00
cobbler /dd
reboot

Where:

 fgc = foreground color
 bdc = border color
 bgc = background color

 00 - white
 01 - blue
 02 - black
 03 - green



Luis Felipe Antoniosi




On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Mark Ormond <markormond at mtxsystems.com>
wrote:

> I found the montype command and setting it to m and switching my 1084 over
> to mono mode I can read the text.
> (I don't have a rgb cable made up for this config, so I'm using composite)
>
> So there is no mode equivalent in nitros9? (i.e. mode co40 or mode co80
> under dos.)
>
> And no quick command to change the screen colors?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Robert Gault
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:05 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Nitros9 quick screen questions.
>
> Mark Ormond wrote:
> > Quick question...
> >
> >
> >
> > How do you change screen modes/colors in Nitros9?
> >
> > It boots 80 col, black on green.
> >
> > I'd like to be able to go to 40 or 32 col, and maybe white on black or
> vice versa.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I can't read crap currently.....
> >
> >
> >
> > (Coco3, 6809, running off a coco sdc, with the latest download version
> > from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/files/releases/v3.3.0/)
> >
> >
>
> Mark,
>
> There are several ways to change screen colors but that assumes you can
> read the screen well enough to actually use the NitrOS-9. Reads like that
> is a Catch22 situation for you. :(
>
> So, you could create a new boot disk using the scripts on the disk to boot
> into a 40 column screen and if that is still not clear to a 32 column
> screen.
> You could use xmode to change the parameters in /term and then cobbler the
> disk.
> To do that, you will need to understand how xmode works and which values
> to change.
>
> Since you can't read your screen. I don't see how you can do either of the
> above. Looks like you will need to have someone on the list send you a
> revised disk.
> Would you like me to send you one or do you want to try making changes
> yourself?
>
> Robert
>
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