[Coco] True lowercase on Coco 2

[Arthur Flexser]

POKE 359,57 also screws up saving a Basic program with the Ascii save
option--LOOKS like the program saved okay, but there's no file there.
Nasty!

Art

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:43 PM, L. Curtis Boyle
<curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> Chris - the POKE 359,57 will work, but it will screw up PRINT commands to printer, tape or disk files, so one has to be careful. :)
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>
>
> On May 13, 2013, at 1:38 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>
>> POKE 65314,xxx. Note that BASIC will reset it back to normal at the OK prompt. ,80, for example, will do lowercase, and a full green border.
>>
>> L. Curtis Boyle
>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 13, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Mike Pepe wrote:
>>
>>> Ben,
>>> Unless you build an external character ROM/driver circuit for the 6847,
>>> there are no magic commands to enable lower case since the internal
>>> character generator doesn't have lower case defined internally.
>>>
>>> The exception to this is if you have a late CoCo 2 with the 6847T1 (these
>>> machines have a "B" suffix in their model number) - then a couple of pokes
>>> will turn on the internal lower case, which for some reason I can't find.
>>> Someone else may have it handy though,
>>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
>>>> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Ben
>>>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:12 AM
>>>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>>> Subject: [Coco] True lowercase on Coco 2
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I read this on the Color Computer wiki and was wondering if the commands
>>>> were out there somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> "For compatibility reasons neither of these features were used (true
>>>> lowercase) and were not enabled in BASIC, however the resourceful user
>>>> could enable them by setting certain memory registers."
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>>
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