[Coco] Infocom text adventures

[Bill Pierce]

Nick, very possible. Try scanning the file for $400. that was the old text screen address and I doubt they would go to the trouble of resetting the VDG to address another location. 
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Apr 28, 2014 4:00 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Infocom text adventures


On 28/04/2014 5:30 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> It wouldn't surprise me if the CoCo versions of the Infocom games were
> written with a modular screen driver, to ease porting the game to different
> platforms.
> So the task of getting it to use an 80-column screen may amount to just
> having to modify one routine.
>
> Art
>
>

That's my suspicion Arthur. If we could find where that routine sits we 
could probably modify or reroute it to a routine that writes to the 80 
column display.

I also suspect that fix one of the adventures and you may find they all 
use this same "driver" and all could be modified to use an 80 column 
display.

Nick

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