[Coco] Character set

[Mike Delyea]

I was hoping to use the width80 screen because you have to write over any
text you put on the hscreen to blank the area.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 4:00 PM William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:

> 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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