[Coco] New CoCo'er, Some Q's and looking for hardware

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On 02/24/2016 09:33 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> I would suggest width 40 rather than 80. In NitrOS9, if you have the DISPLAY command handy, you can try:
> DISPLAY 1B 24 1B 20 1 0 0 28 18 2 0 0 1B 21
> for 40 columns, or
>
> DISPLAY 1B 24 1B 20 2 0 0 50 18 2 0 0 1B 21
> for 80 columns
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>

Both commands worked swimmingly on the image I'm using, 
nos96809l2v030300coco3dw.dsk.  I use the dw3doscc3.wav from 
drivewire.zip to boot from that virtual floppy, seems to work well!

I'll stick with 40 wide for now, the 80 wide is a bit headache inducing 
over composite video.  Thanks!

Is there a command reference for video mode/palette settings for the 
DISPLAY command floating around?  So far I gather that 1B tells it to 
write to the screen, but that's all I know for now.


--John, kd8cgo