[Coco] Controlling the placement and attributes of TEXT in 80 Col Text mode.

[coco at jechar.ca]

Yes I have heard of  HPEEK and HPOKE I understand they are quite slow 
though.
And I don't know where in memory the text screen is. Do you know of any 
sample
code that use any of this to manipulate the screen ?

Charlie

On 2023-04-25 17:16, Joel Rees via Coco wrote:
> Do you know about HPEEK and HPOKE?
> 
> The assembly language for this is pretty simple, 'though.
> 
> 2023年4月26日(水) 4:24 coco--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>:
> 
>> All
>> 
>> I see a ATTR command and a HSTAT command and a LOCATE command are 
>> these
>> all the commands available to deal with text screens in Color Computer 
>> 3
>> Basic ?
>> 
>> Are there other ways to manipulate the 80 col text screen ie. Peeks 
>> and
>> Pokes. Has anyone written a USRn ML program that can be loaded into
>> memory
>> and called from a users basic program for fast screen actions like for
>> example changing the Colors on One Line ONLY without effecting the 
>> rest
>> of the screen.
>> 
>> I am thinking of writing a program where some of this might be useful,
>> and don't want to reinvent whats already been done.
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
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