[Coco] Supercomm fails to load on NitrOS9 lvl 2 on my CoCo 3 with 128K, and a couple of other questions?

[Barry Nelson]

If someone were willing to accept black and white text instead of color, wouldn't it be possible to load an alternate font and patch supercomm to display the characters so you could have a choice of either color or the full ibm character set? Also, could the routine be patched to display a better matching character in color mode? Is the source code to supercomm available?
> Well, it's not really whether Supercomm supports the extended characters or not.  The problem is that Supercomm is limited to using the character set supplied by the GIME which does not have the extended characters. At the time I wrote Supercomm I figured that the best character to use in place of the extended characters would be the asterisk, "*".  As I recall, Supercomm will just use that when it comes across a character code that has the high bit set.  But with CoCo3FPGA we could modify the system or even go into graphics mode and create the font there (which has actually already been done under DECB).