Supposedly you can't programatically switch fonts on an international c128 if you have a supercpu https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/30337-is-key-ascii-din-caps-lock-real-any-character/ On 23/10/2017 19:10, Terry Raymond wrote: > Please excuse me if I jump in here ☺ > Are you referring to even the CMD Super CPU? > My question with the CMD design and the 65816 I have seen reports here and > there that this accelerator had it's incompatibilities, but In what areas > as far as the hardware. > No puns intended the Super CPU was an still is an awesome accelerator, I > would be lost without both of my V1and V2 Super CPU and Jiffy DOS. > > This is a very complex piece of hardware I realize. > Mostly reports of I believe optimized games being incompatible. > Terry Raymond > > > On Oct 20, 2017 9:43 AM, "Mia Magnusson" <mia@plea.se> wrote: > >> Den Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:34:04 +0100 skrev smf <smf@null.net>: >>> On 19/10/2017 21:59, Mia Magnusson wrote: >>>> Then the VIC could access RAM as if it were a 16 bit device >>>> (throwing away the four upper bits). >>> It kinda does, if you mean it would be easier if video ram was 16 >>> bits and contained the character and colour (essentially how cga does >>> it) then I don't see how you could do that without completely >>> throwing away the c64 motherboard and starting again. >> Well, you could do some minor modification to the board itself and put >> an adaptor between the VIC-II and it's socket :) >> >>> I'm kinda disappointed that the C128 was a backward step from the >>> plus4 in terms of colour (and cpu speed) but cest la vie. >> Yes, but it would have been even better if it were like EGA/VGA text >> modes on a PC, with 8 bit attribute divided in 4 bit foreground and 4 >> bit background and then have 16 color registers (or even perhaps 32 >> registers, 16 for foreground and 16 for background, and maybe even more >> for the sprites and border and whatever would be nice for multicolor). >> >> But all this would have required some major redesign. I don't know how >> much the price were for faster memory at the time. Getting rid of the >> color RAM might not have saved that much if it meant requiring faster >> RAMs. >> >> -- >> (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help >> (O.o) him achieve world domination. >> (> <) Come join the dark side. >> /_|_\ We have cookies. >> >> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list >> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-10-23 23:00:02
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