[Coco] OS-9 coco2b lowercase

[chris]

That exec works :)

On Oct 20, 2012, at 12:37 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

> Quickest way I remember was "EXEC 41175" to get your Color basic  
> version (hope I am remembering that right...)
>
>
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>
>> The answer is definitely "maybe"!
>>
>> What's the method you used to get your Color Basic version, and what
>> model number of CoCo 2B do you have?  Perhaps others could confirm or
>> falsify that all Color Basic 1.3 CoCo 2s have true lowercase.  I'm
>> reasonably certain that all "B" model numbers have the lowercase, but
>> less convinced that those CoCo 2s and only those have Color Basic  
>> 1.3.
>>
>> Art
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>>> yeah color basic 1.3 :P
>>>
>>> the poke shows it
>>>
>>> so that would be a good detection maybe?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> I think you're mistaking your Extended Basic version (1.1?) which
>>>> appears on the startup screen with the Color Basic version (1.3?)  
>>>> that
>>>> you have to look for within the Color Basic ROM space ($A000-BFFF)
>>>> somewhere (anybody got the PEEK address for the Ascii "3" in  
>>>> "1.3"?)
>>>> Or possibly mistaking the Color Basic version for the Disk Basic
>>>> version, if you're doing this with a disk controller in the  
>>>> cartridge
>>>> slot.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not certain whether all Color Basic 1.3 CoCos in fact had true
>>>> lowercase.  That there are 4464 DRAM chips need not imply that  
>>>> the VDG
>>>> is the lowercase-capable 6847A (?) version.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I think Boisy might be mistaken in that I believe (memory is
>>>> fuzzy about this, tho) that Color Basic 1.2, not 1.3, was the  
>>>> first to
>>>> support 64K.  In fact, come to think of it, I'm not sure that 1.3
>>>> wasn't introduced with the CoCo 3 and not used at all in CoCo 2s.
>>>>
>>>> Art
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com 
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> 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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