Re: videx video card or getting lowercase display on a II+

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <VvWdnews7_qDSBPbRVnzvQA@telenor.com>,
Knut Roll-Lund  <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no> wrote:
>In basis I'm just out to get lowercase (on the display) for my II+. So I 
>though an 80col card would do the job. My II+ is the RFI version so an 
>option would be to just burn eprom and replace the character generator. 
>I have a programmer and I have suitable eproms. What I miss is a clear 
>description of what modifications I need to make. - You need to add an 
>extra bit for the decoding don't you? Or does the RFI version bring all 
>the necessary bits to the character generator for it to handle also 
>lowercase?

My II+ had a lowercase ROM installed when I acquired it.  AFAICT, there were
no mods to the motherboard needed to make it work.  (It makes you wonder a
bit why the II+ shipped with an uppercase-only keyboard and character-
generator ROM...would an extra key for Caps Lock really have been that much
more expensive?)

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