[Coco] Netscoco Beta 1

[Robert Emery]

--- tim lindner <tlindner at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Robert Emery <theother_bob at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Increased and decreased font sizes would still need to be
> > drawn without modifying the ROM.
> 
> If you wanted to have a double sized font and still wanted to use HPRINT
> you could generate four different font bitmaps: one for each quadrant of
> the double sized glyph.
> 
> Though, you would need a quick way to switch between the different font
> sets.
> 

Hmmm... come to think of it, Custom CoCo Basic supports multiple fonts in
memory in a 512K CoCo3. :-) Also has a JOYSTK(4) and (5) for the Tandy hi-res
adapter and many other useful features.

I think the software should detect RAM size and utilize features accordingly.

Bob


		
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