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

[Dave Philipsen]

By my recollection the palette selected pretty closely matched the IBM 
colors.  Not sure what would be wrong if you're seeing wildly different 
colors.  And, if I remember correctly, Supercomm will select a different 
palette for monochrome as opposed to color monitors too.  It's been such 
a long time...I'd have to go back and read the docs again.

Dave


On 11/4/2015 3:15 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Dave, just put the Coco in graphics mode then you can load fonts.
> 2 graphics modes support 80x24 text, 640x192 2 color, and 640x192 4 color. Actually, they use the 6x8 fonts as well in "proportional" mode.
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> In the text modes, palettes can be changed to any of the 64 colors to get better matched colors to the IBM color set.
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> In my MShell project, I do my own graphics and font handling and have a 80x28 font on standard 640x192 2 color.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 4:07 am
> Subject: [Coco] Fwd: Re: Supercomm fails to load on NitrOS9 lvl 2 on my CoCo 3 with 128K, and a couple of other questions?
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> I'm not sure how black & white text would give the possibility to load
> an
> alternate font.  Can you explain?
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> There is a generic source code to Supercomm
> available and possibly I
> still have the original source code with comments.
> Actually, I think
> the 'generic' source has Randy Wilson's comments in it
> probably.  When I
> left the CoCo scene back in the early 90s I authorized him to
> continue
> to support it with his disassembled version of the source code.  I
> never
> did release my source to anyone at the time.  I have a bunch of 3.5"
> disks
> from way back and I'm guessing the source is on one somewhere.
> Also, somewhere,
> I believe I have a hardcopy listing that was printed
> from my trusty dot matrix
> printer but I have not located it at this
> point.  Since I do not currently have
> a floppy controller I can't
> retrieve the source code although I could probably
> work with the source
> that's available now.
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> I'm not exactly sure what you would
> want as far as "a better matching
> character in color mode" but, certainly, any
> other character or a
> variety of characters could be used with a lookup
> table.
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