[Coco] Alternate font sets

[Arthur Flexser]

Under Basic, if it is a CoCo 3 program that uses HPRINT, the font
characters are stored above the Super Extended Basic area, and you'd just
have to loadm a substitute set.  But if regular PRINT is used, the
characters are stored in hardware, and there's nothing you can do to change
them, short of (for the CoCo 1) using something like the Lowerkit hardware
as an add-on to the 6847 display chip containing an EPROM with a substitute
font set for the one contained in the 6847.

Art

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Barry Nelson <
barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:

> You have to be running OS-9 Level II or NitrOS9 Level II. You type "merge
> font_definition_file" at the prompt. To use the font you must be in hires
> graphics mode. OS-9/NitrOS9 draws the letters on the graphics screen.
>
> > Ron Klein ron at kdomain.org
> > Fri Aug 26 09:54:07 EDT 2016
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Is it possible load alternate font sets for the Coco that are compatible
> > with many of the text adventure games out there?  I'm also looking to see
> > if there are any 80 column font sets available for the Coco 3.
> >
> > If so, how is this done?  A binary EXEC that gets loaded?  Not sure how
> > this would work.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Ron
>
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