[Coco] Character set
William Astle
lost at l-w.ca
Fri Aug 7 15:54:11 EDT 2020
That font is only used by HPRINT on graphics screens. The hardware text
screens do not use any external font source; it's built into the GIME.
On 2020-08-07 1:36 p.m., S Klammer wrote:
> I believe that the answer to editing the fonts used for the 40 and 80
> column text screen is actually "yes". Rainbow had some related articles;
> however, nothing is jumping out at me right now and I've misplaced my SDC.
>
> http://www.coco3.com/community/1986/10/coco-3-font-editing says "... contains
> the font data for 96 ASCII characters starting with the space character and
> endig with the delete character (ASCII $20 thru $7F). This character font
> consists of an image 8 by 8 pixels per character (8 bytes per character)
> and starts at location $F07F in the CoCo 3’s ROM image."
>
> https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Disks/Applications/Hprint%20Font%20Editor%20(John%20Strong).zip
>
> I have not tried the above ZIP from John Strong.
>
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