[Coco] The early days of Hacking and Coding a CoCo Was: Here's a CoCo 1 ...

[Steve]

There are other ways to get 80 display working with a CoCo 1 or 2 
without using a word pak or any other cart or internal mod.

It's so easy that you will hate yourself for not thinking of it in the 
first place.

Mater of fact, I still have my first CoCo 1 development system that I 
made some 30+ years ago.  It has 80 by 24 display and real keyboard to 
type on.  At the time, I could assemble my program and load it into 
another CoCo for testing in about 30 seconds.

Oh yes, when I created my first CoCo development system, the Floppy disk 
drive (nor the Word Pak) had not came out yet for the CoCo.  Everything 
was cassette based.  So, the development CoCo was plugged into a $350 
UPS so not to loose the source code during the day. (hourly backups were 
saved too.) At the end of day, the source code was saved on 3 tape 
recorders with one of them going home with me at night.

Those were the days...
Steve

On 1/17/2014 7:35 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> Using an wordpak like this:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wli_mhhT4EE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
> On 2014-01-17 10:20 PM, "Mathieu Bouchard" <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
>
>> Le 2014-01-17 à 18:13:00, Steve a écrit :
>>
>>   (it had an 80 column display too)
>> How did you get 80 columns working ? 64 columns of 4 pixels = 256 
>> pixels wide already. 
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