[Coco] 64 column "low res" text sceen on coco3
William Astle
lost at l-w.ca
Thu Apr 11 17:42:46 EDT 2013
I don't know if this is known or not. I can't believe I'm the first
person to try poking values into $FF99 while in the 32 column "low res"
text mode. Anyway, I found it interesting.
Anyway, with the GIME set up for the 32x16 "coco2" text screen, if you
set $FF99 to $10, you will end up with a 64x16 "coco2" text screen
which uses 1024 bytes of memory. This screen still supports all the
"SG4" graphics blocks.
The "lines per field" setting seems to work, too. Setting it to 200 or
225 lines seems to work as expected. Setting $FF99 to $70 yields a 64x19
text screen though the bottom 3 rows of the last line are missing. ($60
would give 32x19.)
If you're messing with this from basic, you'll need to use a program
like the following to see the result because basic resets all the video
registers.
10 WIDTH32
20 POKE&HFF99,&H10
30 GOTO30
Note that this is totally distinct from the high resolution 64 column
text mode.
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