[Coco] further adventures with plug'n'power/x10

[John W. Linville]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:19:53AM -0500, Little John wrote:
> There was a fellow back arounf 1994 or 1995 that wrote a CoCo3 Disk
> Version software that would work with the PNP Controller and a CoCo
> 3 - I can't offhand remember what it was called but I'll start
> digging and see what I can come up with.

I'm pretty sure I have this software somewhere, and I'm fairly certain
I bought it from Chris Hawks at a CoCoFEST! in Elgin.

> I wish the GIME chip
> supported all the semigraphics modes, but I think it only supports
> semigraphics 24. A long time ago, sockmaster had written a program
> (I no longer have it unfortunatly) that duplicated the WIDTH32
> screen on an HSCREEN. I remember it was quite amazing and worked
> with everything I threw at it - so it should, theoretically be
> possible to write a "semigraphics emulator" in a similar fashion and
> then the PNP Cart might be run from RAM under such an emulation.
> SockMaster... are you there - if anyone can do this, I think it
> would be you.

That is a cool idea...the "engine" of such a program might be used
for a tile-mode graphics emulator as well... :-)

John
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