[Coco] I never said CaChars was original

[Bill Pierce]

One such hirez text program from Rainbow (july 86) was "Mouse" by Steve Bjork for Coco 2. I don't think he did a font editor for it, but I did & still have it somewhere on disk.
Mouse featured hi-res joystick & cocomax interface support, bell and click calls, graphics pointer and a upper & lower case 32x24 graphics font patched into Basic's print cmd. All cmds were called via USR calls
I used this program for quite a while and wrote several programs for it. It was relocatable so I wrote a rom/ram routine that would load it in above DECB so it didn't use memory. Then I got a Coco 3 and had no more use for it. The sources were uploaded by Steve to RTSI years ago. 5 files, MOUSE1.ASM - MOUSE5.ASM plus the basic loader file with 3 programs he submitted DISKTIME.BAS, LINES.BAS & CURMAK.BAS. Other people submitted a couple of programs to Rainbow for Mouse over the next couple of years.

Bill P

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Bill Pierce
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I vaguely remember that in some issue of the Rainbow was one of those 
"BASIC Machine Code Loaders" that ultimately resulted in a 
high-resolution font screen for PMODE 4 (and maybe the other modes, 
too). I can't recall if there was a way to edit fonts or not. You ran 
it, the screen blinked, and there you were - all the commands and such 
patched to use it properly.

My recollection is hazy - I do remember spending about a week typing in 
all those DATA statements, before going to school, after school, before 
bedtime, saving along the way. Once I got it done, I ran it, and it 
bombed. So then I had to spend more bleary-eyed days looking thru the 
code looking for my errant mis-typing. I was a stupid kid then and 
didn't use the Rainbow's error-checking code thingie they had. 
Eventually I fixed it, and it worked perfectly.

I don't think I ever used it for anything after that, and not too long 
later I got a CoCo 3...

Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona

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