[Coco] WordPak RS/CO80

[RJRTTY at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/3/05 10:40:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
boisy at boisypitre.com writes:

<<  one of the programmers 
 talked about the CO80 module being written according to a specification 
 that Tandy provided them, but with hardware that was in prototype 
 stage.
 
 What a mystery... >>

Boisy,

      Earlier last year (2004) I adapted the WordpakII 80 col card
to level 1 OS9  V2.     The TERM and COL80 modules that come with
OS9 V2 would not work with the workpakII.   The TERM and
WORDPAKII modules that came with the wordpakII video
card where written for level 1 OS9 V1.0-1.1.   I dont know if
your version of the wordpak is the same but I successfully
patched the drivers and descriptors that came with the
wordpakII  to work with level 1 OS9 V2.0.   The major problem
was the fact that V2.0 used slightly different SWI vectors in the
keyboard read and character output routine than V1.0-1.2.
     If you want I will put together the details of what I did and
fire them off to you.


Roy