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- From: Perry Eidelbus <pbeast@utw.com>
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- Subject: Re: history of early cbm machines
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:11:18 -0700 (MST)
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- tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk wrote:
- : The Vic's screen (default) was 22 by 23 characters (506 in total) but was
- : flexible. It didn't actually have a bitmap mode (something I duly fell in
- : love with when I moved to the C64) but with some trickery and a drop in
- : screen size it was possible to emulate it. I think the screen had to go
- : down to about 16 by 16 characters or similar so that one font would cover
- : the whole screen.
-
- I loved the 128-bit by 128-bit VIC bitmaps; my first exercise ever in ML.
- :) It was possible, according to "Compute!'s First Book of VIC", to push
- it to about 176x160, if you had at least 3K of memory expansion. You
- could set the characters to double-height, giving you more "surface area"
- to work with; the author said that much beyond 176x160 might not work
- (because of the constraints in screen size, maybe?). When I got my 64, I
- was amazed at how "easy" it was to bitmap graphics. :)
-
- : Jason =-)
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