[Coco] OS-9 coco2b lowercase

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 22:22:46 EDT 2012


No it's not!. My 26-3127B has 8x 44164 chips and basic 1.1 :P

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> I believe it is.  Color BASIC 1.3 was created to accommodate the detection of 64K with the new 4464 DRAM chips.
>
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> well it has color basic 1.3. Is it a good indicator ?
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:57 AM, L. Curtis Boyle
>> <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>> POKE 65314,80 give full green background as well as lowercase (no black border). The print vector in BASIC will normally change this back on you, though, when you return to the OK prompt. If you are running OS-9/NitrOS9, you should be able to patch the VDG driver to keep this mode on at all times as well (somebody did do that way back for OS-9 Level 1, version 2.x, from what I remember).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 19, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Sean James wrote:
>>>
>>>> Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at ...> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any tool or command to activate the lowercase for coco2b ? I
>>>>> can make a basic09 command, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, is there a way to detect by software a coco2b ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thxs,
>>>>>
>>>>> Felipe
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Poke 65314,16 works on my Korean CoCo II to turn on lower case letters.
>>>> As far as detecting the VDP, I don't know.
>>>>
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