Date   : Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:32:35 -0000
From   : "Mike" <profpep@...>
Subject: Re: Graphics extension rom

With a Master 128 you don't need to enable anything - the plot commands are
all there.

The details of all the plot commands are in the user guides Vols 1 & 2

The bit that wasn't incorporated was the SPRITE stuff.

There was a SPRITE editor and a few other bits. I also remember that it
seemed to eat a whole lot of your base RAM. pushing PAGE on a 'B' up above
&1A00.

A dim memory clunking in suggests that some of the sprite stuff was on the
welcome disc for the Master Compact. I need to get a pc set up to read a
3.5" ADFS disc.

I'm not sure if I still have it, I think I must have, because the sprite
editor keystrip is still in my 'flickover' keystrip holder. I think the
original ROM may be stuck in a Sidewise board, still in storage, the manual
likewise. I'm not sure, but I think there may have been a support disc with
it too. I bought the GXR to get dithered colours for my fractal work. I know
where most of this stuff is, but won't be able to get at it for a few
months, until I've done some work on my house.

Thinking about that era, if anyone finds a verobox, with eight user port
sockets on the front, and a user and printer on the back, it's my long lost
cluster controller - up to eight BBC's doing mandelbrot plots, controlled by
the machine doing the display. I lent it to a local school/college and it
vanished. I got the idea from Dr Soft's 'Double Phantom' - did anyone ever
run that ? Knowing me, the hardware would have been fine, but I guess I
would be doing 'which Idiot wrote this?', if I looked at the software these
days.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...>
To: "TEAM EMAIL BBC" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] RE: Graphics extension rom


> By the way guys I'm still wanting to find out how to use *FX to enable
> the Graphics Extension ROM.  I am using the emulator and tried changing
> the 'rom.cfg' file, then the *INSERT command on the Master mode, they
> didn't work.  I forgot how to do it.  Please remind me.
>
> Thanks,
> Fiaz.
>
>
> --- Sprow <info@...> wrote:
>
> > In article <20060129001947.17738.qmail@...>,
> >    Peter Craven <cjl_craves@...> wrote:
> > >   Hi all
> > >
> > >   Does anybody have instructions, extra plot commands, etc. for use
> > of
> > > Graphics Extension ROM?
>