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

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 09:14:15 EST 2014


having a 80 column dumb terminal is even more expensive than a wordpak...



On Jan 18, 2014, at 3:22 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

My guess would be that Steve hooked up the CoCo's RS232 port to a data
terminal and wrote a simple mod to the CoCo's character output routine to
take any character sent to the screen and squirt it out the RS232 port as
well.

Art


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>wrote:

> Le 2014-01-17 à 23:12:00, Steve a écrit :
> 
> 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.
> 
> That's not an actual hint...
> 
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