[Coco] More colors on CoCo 1?

Richard Atkinson rga24 at cantab.net
Sun Jan 21 15:04:02 EST 2007


Hi James,

How are you playing the Dragonfire ROM?

Richard


On 1/21/07, James McKay <jmckay at jmk1.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> "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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