+Stephen Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Fantastic! Beats the Vic-20's 22 character display Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Stephen said: Fantastic! Beats the Vic-20's 22 character display Back in the day I used the same 3-pixel font idea on my Vic-20 to write a 40 character terminal program for calling the local BBSs. That software was lost in the mists of time, but there are numerous other examples of the same idea that can be found here. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 26 minutes ago, SpiceWare said: Back in the day I used the same 3-pixel font idea on my Vic-20 to write a 40 character terminal program for calling the local BBSs. That software was lost in the mists of time, but there are numerous other examples of the same idea that can be found here. Very nice! Lots of examples on the Atari 8-bit machines of using a 3X5 font to give 80 columns in the hi-res (320 pixel) mode. Always fun seeing machines pushed beyond their boundaries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 Just a few tweaks to TJ's kernel, and now each line has its own colour (both FG and BG)... Sweet-as... how astounding. colourtext.mp4 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 How much RAM is needed for the 32-character text kernel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 20 hours ago, Karl G said: How much RAM is needed for the 32-character text kernel? About 19 bytes, last I looked. But don't be mistaken; this is not a general-purpose kernel that is able to display any text. It is in fact an entire rom hardwired to the text and only the text you see on the screen. The trick is the PlusCart, which is able to build this rom on-the-fly, and download it to the '2600 for display. So, when you go to a new page when viewing a file, for example, the PlusCart is building and then downloading an entirely new ROM for the '2600 to run. It's a very different approach, and quite clever. It's a very specific solution for a very specific use - and does a brilliant job in that context. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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