[Coco] Inverting VDG text screen on a CoCo 1/2?

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Wed Feb 15 13:40:23 EST 2023


On the regular VDG, there is no reverse video bit. So you have to use the inverted characters in the character set (ie POKE 1024+loc,0-63).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Feb 15, 2023, at 10:43 AM, Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> I wrote a program to go through the 6847 T1 VDG text modes, which includes lowercase, changing the border, and inverting the screen.
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> I’ve seen programs on the CoCo (like GRABBER) that invert/reverse the screen in software, but the bits to do that on the T1 don’t seem to do anything on the 6847.
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> Does anyone know of a reference that would show me how to do this?  Thanks, much!
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