[Coco] Fwd: Re: Supercomm fails to load on NitrOS9 lvl 2 on my CoCo 3 with 128K, and a couple of other questions?

[Bill Pierce]

Dave, just put the Coco in graphics mode then you can load fonts.
2 graphics modes support 80x24 text, 640x192 2 color, and 640x192 4 color. Actually, they use the 6x8 fonts as well in "proportional" mode.

In the text modes, palettes can be changed to any of the 64 colors to get better matched colors to the IBM color set.

In my MShell project, I do my own graphics and font handling and have a 80x28 font on standard 640x192 2 color.

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 4:07 am
Subject: [Coco] Fwd: Re: Supercomm fails to load on NitrOS9 lvl 2 on my CoCo 3 with 128K, and a couple of other questions?




I'm not sure how black & white text would give the possibility to load
an
alternate font.  Can you explain?

There is a generic source code to Supercomm
available and possibly I
still have the original source code with comments. 
Actually, I think
the 'generic' source has Randy Wilson's comments in it
probably.  When I
left the CoCo scene back in the early 90s I authorized him to
continue
to support it with his disassembled version of the source code.  I
never
did release my source to anyone at the time.  I have a bunch of 3.5"
disks
from way back and I'm guessing the source is on one somewhere.
Also, somewhere,
I believe I have a hardcopy listing that was printed
from my trusty dot matrix
printer but I have not located it at this
point.  Since I do not currently have
a floppy controller I can't
retrieve the source code although I could probably
work with the source
that's available now.

I'm not exactly sure what you would
want as far as "a better matching
character in color mode" but, certainly, any
other character or a
variety of characters could be used with a lookup
table.

Dave