Using the Wordpak2+ and the CoCo-PSG on the Dragon
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:01 pm
Hello,
I have prepared two drivers to work in mode Text1 (40 columns) and in Text2 (80 columns)
Both intercept some system hooks in order to 'adapt' the CharOut, Cls and Print@ to the new width
Because of the changed hooks, you should remember to uninstall the driver or system will hang or go wild!
I attach here two virtual disks:
- WORDPAK2.VDK that contains programs and FONTS.VDK that contains some 160 fonts downloaded from the wildnet.
Most of them are ok for games but really awful for text reading, even some of them are too wide, using the eight bits
for each character whilst the V9958 defines the chars using only 6 bits so 2 separator bits ...
RUN"T1MODE" will install the driver for the 40 column mode and will show you the 'default' set of fonts that are very readable.
Pressing a key will show two important messages and will allow you to choose one font among the 160 that are in the FONTS disk.
This FONTS disk should be mounted in drive 2 ... or you could edit the Basic program to your liking.
Same applies when using RUN"T2MODE" for the 80 columns mode.
***REMEMBER*** to EXEC&H7000 before changing from one mode to another ...
cheers
pere
I have prepared two drivers to work in mode Text1 (40 columns) and in Text2 (80 columns)
Both intercept some system hooks in order to 'adapt' the CharOut, Cls and Print@ to the new width
Because of the changed hooks, you should remember to uninstall the driver or system will hang or go wild!
I attach here two virtual disks:
- WORDPAK2.VDK that contains programs and FONTS.VDK that contains some 160 fonts downloaded from the wildnet.
Most of them are ok for games but really awful for text reading, even some of them are too wide, using the eight bits
for each character whilst the V9958 defines the chars using only 6 bits so 2 separator bits ...
RUN"T1MODE" will install the driver for the 40 column mode and will show you the 'default' set of fonts that are very readable.
Pressing a key will show two important messages and will allow you to choose one font among the 160 that are in the FONTS disk.
This FONTS disk should be mounted in drive 2 ... or you could edit the Basic program to your liking.
Same applies when using RUN"T2MODE" for the 80 columns mode.
***REMEMBER*** to EXEC&H7000 before changing from one mode to another ...
cheers
pere