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- From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: 80 column screen quality
- Message-ID: <23JUL199204425288@vax2.concordia.ca>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 09:42:00 GMT
- References: <92202.162602KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> <22JUL199201124708@vax2.concordia.ca> <jpenne.711789766@ee.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <jpenne.711789766@ee.ualberta.ca>, jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca
- (Jerry Penner) writes..\.
- >
- >Can't agree with this though. MSDOS machines all have crisper looking
- >text on any modern video card/monitor combination. It is easier to
- >read by a long shot. I do agree though that their choice of font
- >could be better.
-
- Well I was comparing with the text-font on my ancient IBM XT! :) More
- modern MSDOS machines have a larger and better defined ASCII character
- set. Still don't forgot the ASCII text built-in on the IIgs just it emulating
- an Apple //e, and it's standard 80-columns text.
-
- >I also really like the fact that each character can
- >have a difference foreground and background color. Apple should have
- >done this on the IIgs (but there would go the compatibility).
- >--
-
- Under normal conditions, no, although you can do something simular with
- an Apple IIgs's text display. Each row of text can have a different foreground
- and background color. In fact you can even split the colors three or four times
- on the same line to have a characters with three shades of green for example.
- You can only changes colors horizontially as far as I know, so there's no way
- to have rainbow-colored text going arcoss a text screen.
- You can see examples of color splitting technics in many of DreamWorld
- Software productions. (At first glace it looks like SHR graphics, not text!)
-
- It'd be interested if someone wrote a (limited) color-ANSI emulator using those
- technics with the GS's colored text! It's even possible to mix Super-Hi-Res
- graphics with regular ASCII text on the same screen....
-
-
- >Jerry Penner jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca
-
- Mitchell Spector
- spector@vax2.concordia.ca
-