[Coco] OS-9 coco2b lowercase

[chris]

The simplest way to see if you have a lowecase CC2 is to just press  
0(zero). If it has a slash then it does lowercase.

You could also boot the os9 l1 image from  http://www.nitros9.org/latest/ 
  for the coco2b with out patching.

Here is a crappy cellphone pic of the coco2b image:   http://cralt.com/nos9_coco2b.jpg

CB 1.3 IS needed for cc2's with 2 ram chips but it doesn't mean it  
will have lowercase. I have a few CC2's with CB1.3, 16K, no lower  
case, and no ECB. They have the "Radio Shack" name plate.

My 2 lowercase CC2's are both 64K ECB machines with the newer TANDY  
name plate. Both PN 26-3127B


-chris




On Oct 19, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Boisy G. Pitre 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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