[Coco] Re: Gadgets

[Torsten Dittel]

billg wrote:

> "Back in the day", when CoCo was King (at least in our eyes), my system had
> a 'lowercase converter' kit installed that allowed true lowercase instead of
> inverse video.
> 
> Does anyone still make this, or are there schematics so someone COULD make
> it?

The CoCo3 doesn't need that. It supports lowercase by hardware. Even the 
latest models of the CoCo2 (those with the TANDY logo), the so called 
"CoCo2B", supports true lowercase in 32x16 text screen resolution (a 
strange semigraphic mode with 2x3 graphical characters was kicked out of 
the system to make place for the new functions). It even supported 
"inverse screen" and "light border" in combination with "true lowercase" 
or "classic mode" and of course everything in "green" or "orange". I 
guess the CoCo3 emulates this behaviour in 32x16 mode.