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====== $FF98 (65432) Video Mode Register – VMODE ======

Note: Some of these resolutions are not actually possible to display

^ Bits ^ ID     ^ Description                                      ^
| 7    | BP     | 0 = Text Mode, 1 = Graphics Mode                 |
| 6    | *      | Unused                                           |
| 5    | BPI    | 1 = Burst phase inverted (Artifact Colors) * *   |
| 4    | MOCH   | 1 = Monochrome                                   |
| 3    | H50    | 0 = 60 Hz Vertical Sync, 1 = 50 Hz Vertical Sync |
| 2-0  | LPR2-0 | Lines Per Row (Adjusts Vertical Resolution       |

*Undocumented

* *Set to 1 when the F1 key is used when powering on the CoCo 3.

^ Bits 2-0 : Lines Per Row (LPR) | Description      ^
| 000                            | 1 line per row   |
| 001                            | 2 line per row   |
| 010                            | 3 lines per row *|
| 011                            | 8 lines per row  |
| 100                            | 9 lines per row  |
| 101                            | 10 lines per row |
| 110                            | 11 lines per row |
| 111                            | 1 row ONLY  * *  |

* Testing has not found any working screen mode with this value

* * Screen mode has only 1 row of pixels that runs from top to bottom of the screen.