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

[Bill Pierce]

Barry, The Supercomm source is in the Nitros9 repo. The compiled disk is available in the downloads.

It wouldn't be hard to create (or port) a complete IBM font to use in 640x192 (or 255) to do ANSI in B/W. Probably easier than trying to get it to convert colors in 640x192 4 color mode.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>; dave <dave at davebiz.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 2:24 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Supercomm fails to load on NitrOS9 lvl 2 on my CoCo 3 with 128K, and a couple of other questions?


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).

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