CHAPTER 4: Choosing Your Display Settings

 These are four OpenSpand video settings:

VIDEO NORMAL / BORDER WHITE	VIDEO INV / BORDER BLACK
VIDEO INV / BORDER WHITE	VIDEO NORMAL / BORDER BLACK

 How to Set the display in the configuration panel

Pressing the right button on top of your OpenSpand will bring up the CONFIGURATION screen on your display.   Note that any program you had in memory will be lost since OpenSpand exits CONFIGURATION by essentially doing a reset of your computer.   

In CONFIGURATION, each press of the letter V advances through the next one of the four possible display settings in the following order:

•  VIDEO NORMAL / BORDER WHITE
• VIDEO INV / BORDER BLACK
  
• VIDEO INV / BORDER WHITE
• VIDEO NORMAL / BORDER BLACK

As an example, if you were currently in VIDEO INV / BORDER WHITE mode and you wanted to set the display to  VIDEO INV / BORDER BLACK mode you would type this 5-key sequence.

How to Set the display programatically

An alternative way to set your screen mode is to use one of these BASIC POKE commands to ROM address 16.  These changes are not persistant.

Here is a short BASIC routine that cycle through the 4 available display modes using the POKE to ROM address.

TODO:

Make .p files downloadable
Include a video of the demo running.
Revise to fill the screen with the character set including graphics, perhaps some motion

Create a video demonstrating persistance of CONFIGURATION setting vs ROM POKE.