[Coco] Fwd: Re: WordPak Clone

[CoCo Demus]

It works with address FF76,FF77

http://i.imgur.com/MIXlyFt.jpg

On Jun 30, 2017 6:34 PM, "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> I recall that the WordPak 2 was capable of being upgraded to 8K, if that's
> any help whatsoever.
>
> Art
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On Friday 30 June 2017 20:46:16 Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
> >
> > > It appears the CMOS 6345 is comparable with the MOS 6845 with lower
> > > power requirements.  One does wonder if Hitachi hid some added
> > > features like the 6309 vs. the 6809.
> > >
> > > Bruce W.
> > >
> > I wouldn't be anything but pleasantly surprised if it could somehow
> > handle a larger ram than the 2k thats in the original.  That was its
> > bottleneck. My driver added another line of text, but there wasn't room
> > enough for 2 additional lines.
> >
> > > On 06/30/2017 10:57 AM, CoCo Demus wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I've just got an original (unobtainable) Word Pak RS from Gene
> > > > Heskett (thanks Gene). I will first make it to work as it seems it's
> > > > not direct compatible with WordPak 1 & 2.
> >
> > The base address may not be the same.  The other one I have has had its
> > address changed at least twice, mainly because while it only needed a 4
> > byte wide block, the 4 bytes they chose tied up 2 of those blocks, using
> > two byte from one block of 4, and 2 bytes from an adjoining block of 4.
> > Fixing the address also needed the code reassembled to move the address
> > the code wrote to. There was extended muttering in the coyote.den when
> > that came to light. Genealogy was discussed, at length. :(
> >
> > > > Then I will make a clone of it. But this will happen in August as
> > > > I'm taking a vacation trip now.
> > > >
> > > > I'll let you know,
> > > >
> > > > Felipe
> >
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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