[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

David golgotha at toughguy.net
Sat Apr 23 00:27:11 EDT 2005


James Diffendaffer wrote:

>I found the HOT CoCo article with the lowercase mod.
>
>I got to thinking about it and by adding a larger ROM and a paging
>circuit + a register to select different character set pages you could
>scroll the characters just by writing a single byte.
>
>It does require creating lots of character tables and a screen to go
>with them. 
>
>This would even let you make the demo in Basic!  The scroll takes
>place with a single poke!  Sure it's cheating but it would work!
>
>  
>
The problem is that in the classical Matrix-style demo, each character 
falls at a different rate - so scrolling the whole text screen isn't 
useful in this case

David



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