[Coco] ADOS

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Thu Jun 20 19:17:18 EDT 2013


On further reflection, the $10 that needs to be changed to $50 for a
green border is probably the one that follows the $8A in line 850.

Art

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> The 4 lines that must be enabled (originally by editing out
> apostrophes at the beginning of them) read as follows:
>
> 820 IF LL>65 THEN PRINT "ERROR--STARTUP LOGO TOO LONG--MAXIMUM OF 65
> CHARS AVAILABLE IF USING BUILT-IN LOWERCASE OPTION--YOU HAVE";LL:END
>
> 830 POKE&H2B4C,&H10:POKE&H2B4D,&H2F:POKE&H2B4E,&HF6:POKE&H2B4F,&H18
>
> 840 FOR I = &H2168 TO &H217A:READ P$:POKE I, VAL("&H"+P$):NEXT
>
> 850 DATA 10,2B,C1,0D,34,02,BD,95,AC,B6,FF,22,8A,10,B7,FF,22,35,82
>
> (I THINK changing the first poke value from &H10 to &H50 gives you a
> green border instead of a black one as default.)
>
> The line numbers in your version probably need to be changed to
> something else.  This needs to be somewhere after LL is assigned in
> line 190, and you need to make sure the new lines aren't being skipped
> over on account of some IF/THEN statement.
>
> Art
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> they are not there probably i have an early version
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 2013-06-20, at 6:27 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> The original ADOS had support for the CoCo 2B lowercase, but only in
>>> versions that were newer than the introduction of CoCo 2B models.
>>>
>>> The 2B lowercase support is not there by default (since enabling it
>>> would render the screen unreadable in earlier CoCos).  You have to
>>> enable it using the CUST/BAS configuration program.  See if your copy
>>> of CUST/BAS has comments relating to how to do this in lines 710-860.
>>>
>>> I think it may be possible to add the relevant lines to CUST/BAS if
>>> they aren't there and have it work.  Let me know if you need them.
>>>
>>> Art
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Retro Canada <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> That was me. I am looking for an ADOS 2. found one but it has no support for coco2b lowercase.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to ship them to me i pay for it.
>>>>
>>>> luis
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On 2013-06-20, at 6:42 PM, "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I vaguely remember someone mentioning needing ADOS the other day. What was
>>>>> that all about? I just found my ADOS disks, both ADOS and ADOS3. Don't know
>>>>> if they are any good (can't get them to load), but at least I found them.
>>>>> And have no use for them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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