I have modified the text.asm to support color text generation. It also fixes a bug with the tab control character and now allows you to print the special characters below $20 and above $7F.

It can be re-compiled into the existing System Monitor ROM as it adds ony 23 more bytes.

To us it, write the foreground color to locations $1FDEF and the background to location $1FDEE. Note: Not all color combinations result in easily readable characters so some experimentation is needed to arrive at a good combination.

Here are a few that I found:

Black on Blue : FG $00, BG $BC
Black on Purple : FG $00, BG $4A
Black on Green : FG $00, BG $23
White on Blue : FG $FF, BG $50
White on Purple : FG $FF, BG $4A
White on Red : FG $FF, BG $4C

Contact me via email if you are interested in this modification.

The IDE interface is coming along. I have it converted from Serial to SPI and have some simple commands working. I'm working on the rest of the commands and hope to have them done in the near future.

Daryl

I have re-assembled the System Monitor with the new ctext.asm file and have uploaded the updated files (source and binaries) to my website - sbc3.zip, in the download section.

Daryl