[Coco] True lowercase on Coco 2

Ben ben_jimenez at yahoo.com
Tue May 14 14:11:32 EDT 2013


Mike Pepe <lamune at ...> writes:

> 
> Ben, 
> Unless you build an external character ROM/driver circuit for the 6847,
> there are no magic commands to enable lower case since the internal
> character generator doesn't have lower case defined internally.
> 
> The exception to this is if you have a late CoCo 2 with the 6847T1 (these
> machines have a "B" suffix in their model number) - then a couple of pokes
> will turn on the internal lower case, which for some reason I can't find.
> Someone else may have it handy though,
> 


Hi,

yes I have a B version, was just wanting to figure out this lowercase mode for 
it. Does lowercase work on the VCC emulator in WIDTH32 mode? I guess I'll try 
it out and see.

Ben




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