[Coco] More colors on CoCo 1?

James McKay jmckay at jmk1.freeserve.co.uk
Sun Jan 21 14:07:46 EST 2007


"Torsten Dittel" <Torsten at Dittel.info> wrote in 
message news:45B3969A.52E2FFD6 at Dittel.info...
>I once patched the Dragonfire ROM Pak to work with 50Hz PAL CoCo1/2.
> This program displayed 8 colors (both PMODE3 palettes) at once. I have
> then written an "intro" mixing more graphic modes to get more colors and
> even smooth "on border animation". However, this worked only on the
> "real" thing, my 50Hz PAL 64KB CoCo 2B (with T1 lowercase VDG). A nice
> file for emulator flaccidity proving... ;-). For those PAL guys who want
> to try:

Nifty!

It shows all 9 colours on screen, both 256x192*2 and 128x192*4 modes at the 
same time and a couple of (moving) black lines in the border too.

bye,
James McKay.






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