[Coco] List of programs

[Barry Nelson]

 You may be correct, I no longer have a CoCo 2b to test on, just a CoCo 1 and a CoCo 3. However, the only program I recall having an issue with the semi-graphics was the Appliance and Light Controller. The cartridge would run, but the graphics were lower resolution than they should have been. It could be that this only happens on the CoCo 3 and I am remembering incorrectly. I have the Appliance and Light Controller cartridge, so if someone has a CoCo 2b I can probably dump it to disk so they can check. I am pretty sure that the incompatibility list will be pretty short, even with a CoCo 3 though. Most programs that will run on a CoCo 1 will run on a CoCo 3 if you use a composite video display so the artifact colors can be displayed. Of course the reverse is not true, programs that were written for a CoCo 3 only run on that system.

On Mon Aug 17 02:30:15 EDT 2015 Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu wrote:
I think you don't have it quite right there.  Semigraphics-6 was indeed
replaced by true lowercase on the B model CoCo 2s, but it was a useless
semigraphics mode that never worked right and was not used in any
programs.  You're thinking of the CoCo 3, which lacked all semigraphics
modes other than Semigraphics-4 (SET/RESET graphics).  In general, there is
complete compatibility between CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 software.

Art