Re: Discovered the Hi-Res Basic!

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:40:18 +0200
Message-ID: <20171019214018.00000922@plea.se>
Den Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:04:30 +0200 skrev Christian Dirks
<Toast_r@IdeaLine.info>:
> Hallo Ruud,
> > Does the DB card have something like a low-res mode? When checking
> > the parameters, the values are either checked against 200/640 or
> > 50/160. Any info is welcome!
> 
> There is a low res mode that uses the PETSCII block graphics
> characters. At the moment, I don't have the machine by hand, so I
> can't test it. I just found it once and didn't check it out further.
> If I remember it correct, after initializing the BASIC extension with
> sys 40960, it can be switched to low-res mode with !GRAPHICS OFF,
> while !OFF disables the BASIC extension completely.
> 
> The commands !DISP, !HARD, !TRANS and !TEST, which  can be read in the
> ROM, are still to be examined.
> Maybe !HARD is used to print a hardcopy and !TEST can be used to test
> if a dot is set or not. !DISP may be used to turn the diplay of the
> graphic screen on and off. I think, I should get the machine back on
> my desk to test these commands.

Maybe the block graphics mode works without the special hardware? Would
be easy to test in VICE.

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