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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Nitros9 (at least, as of version 2.10 that I last worked on) had support for 224 character fonts in graphics modes (and 25 lines), and I did an IBM extended character set font for it as well, specifically for that reason (Alan Dekok also had sped up the printing of graphic fonts drastically from the original). I used it with some simple terminal programs to see those characters on BBS's. The one issue it had was that in order to get 80 columns, you could only go up to a 4 color screen, so not all colours were supported (to be honest, I usually only used it in 2 color mode, as it was a little faster). 
I also had disassembled Supercomm, and had started optimizing the serial read routines to speed it up, but I honestly don't remember if I completely finished that, or released that to the public. 

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> On Nov 4, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
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> Well, it's not really whether Supercomm supports the extended characters or not.  The problem is that Supercomm is limited to using the character set supplied by the GIME which does not have the extended characters. At the time I wrote Supercomm I figured that the best character to use in place of the extended characters would be the asterisk, "*".  As I recall, Supercomm will just use that when it comes across a character code that has the high bit set.  But with CoCo3FPGA we could modify the system or even go into graphics mode and create the font there (which has actually already been done under DECB).
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> It's been so long ago but one thing I remember about Supercomm on the CoCo3 was that a stock system only allowed 80x24 text I think and sometimes a BBS would try to position the cursor to line 25 which would cause a glitch.  I had actually found the code and created a patch in whichever OS9 module it was to display 25 rows of text with 225 video scan lines and that cured that problem.
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> Dave Philipsen
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>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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>> Dave, yes, mostly z-modem, but I think most protocols are available. I imaging it's up to the sysop and the system.
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>> I was just on CyberChat with Supercomm and noticed some of the ANSI was a little off... it may be my settings (supercomm & BBS), I may play around with it soon and see what I can come up with.
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>> Does Supercomm support the "extended ibm character set"?
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