==== Colour Flashing Notewriter Style ====
Have you saw programs like Face Noter, Octanoter, etc. All those programs use a special extra colour mode, to activate char flashing. Some of you may find it to be really difficult to understand how it works, but it is actually *that* easy to remember. All you need to do is switch $D011 to $5b to get extra colour mode, and create a colour cycling routine. Here's a routine for it.

<code> 
;===============================
;Flashing colours in EBC mode
;===============================

flashpt = $02

           !to "flasher.prg",cbm
           * = $0810
           sei
           lda #$00
           sta flashpt
           sta $d020
           sta $d021
           lda #<irq
           ldx #>irq
           sta $314
           stx $315
           lda #$7f
           sta $dc0d
           lda #$5b
           sta $d011 ;Swich on EBC mode
           lda #$01
           sta $d01a
           cli
           rts ;Just end here for now
irq        inc $d019
           jsr flash
           jmp $ea31

flash      inc flashpt
           lda colour1,x
           sta $d022 ;EBC Multicolour 1
           lda colour2,x
           sta $d023 ;EBC Multicolour 2
           lda colour3,x
           sta $d024 ;EBC Multicolour 3
           inx
           cpx #$28
           beq resetf
           inc flashpt
           rts
resetf     ldx #$00
           stx flashpt
           rts

colour1    !byte $09,$09,$02,$02,$08,$08,$0a,$0a
           !byte $07,$07,$01,$01,$07,$07,$0a,$0a
           !byte $08,$08,$02,$02,$09,$09,$00,$00
           !byte $00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00
           !byte $00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00
           !byte $00

colour2    !byte $06,$06,$04,$04,$0e,$0e,$05,$05
           !byte $0d,$0d,$01,$01,$0d,$0d,$05,$05
           !byte $0e,$0e,$04,$04,$06,$06,$00,$00
           !byte $00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00
           !byte $00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00
           !byte $00

colour3    !byte $00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00
           !byte $00,$00,$09,$09,$02,$02,$08,$08
           !byte $05,$05,$0d,$0d,$01,$01,$0d,$0d
           !byte $05,$05,$08,$08,$02,$02,$09,$09
           !byte $00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00
</code>