[Coco] CoCo 128-column text mode

Nick Marentes nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
Wed Jan 7 15:40:33 EST 2015


On 8/01/2015 6:36 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:06 PM, William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Theoretically, it would allow for 256 columns in a text mode with no attributes
> Is there a no-attribute text mode???
>
> 		-- A
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>

I think there is but hardware horizontal scrolling always moves in bytes 
of 2.

Something with the design of the GIME chip...it fetches 2 bytes at a time.

Nick


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