Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drupa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!drupa!kmeis From: kmeis@drupa.UUCP (MeisK) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Old ATARI 80 column upgrades. Message-ID: <1041@drupa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 11:18:34 EST Article-I.D.: drupa.1041 Posted: Thu Nov 7 11:18:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:42:26 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 24 Recently there was some discussion of possible 80 column display upgrades for the old ATARI computers. I recently purchased a RAMROD os board and along with it an OMNIVIEW 8k chip. This chip resides on the RAMROD os board and creates an 80 column display via software. The program resides in the 4k of memory that was previously not accessable. It is compatable with BASIC and can be activated either with a usr call or by hitting a sequence of the START, SELECT, and OPTION keys. I have been using it with AMODEM4.2 communications software and it has been working well. A switch was provided that allows going from 80 column mode to a resident monitor that has features such as program interupt, dissasemble memory etc.. It even came with an 80 column text editing package. One note however, since the 80 column emulation is done with the high res graphics mode, 8k of ram is consumed by the program, also a monitor is needed for quality characters. Kevin J. Meis AT&T ISL 11900 N. Pecos Denver, Co. 80234 303/538-4364