[Coco] MC6847 External Character ROM

[Juan Castro]

Another silly question: is there any CoCo emulator that supports an
external char ROM?


Juan Castro
Enviado do meu Olivetti Programma 101

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> On 20/01/2015 5:52 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
>
>> You'll be limited to one of two 2-color options with these "graphics",
>> of course.  It could still be interesting, but it looses some luster
>> when you have to choose between light green & dark green or light
>> orange and dark orange... ;-)
>>
>> John
>>
>
> That's for characters up to 128. Can the characters 128 to 255 (8 colors
> block graphics) also not be reprogrammed?
>
> Even so, hires graphics, even only light and dark green, would make VDG
> text displays so much nicer... and it only eats 512 bytes!
>
> Nick
>
>
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