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- From: daniels@xstor.com (Daniel A. Segel)
- Subject: Re: Confused by SCSI displays.
- Message-ID: <daniels-070193110800@175.175.10.2>
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- Organization: Storage Dimensions, Inc.
- References: <HEYES.93Jan6135328@dadev.cebaf.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:09:39 GMT
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- In article <HEYES.93Jan6135328@dadev.cebaf.gov>, heyes@dadev.cebaf.gov
- (Graham Heyes) wrote:
- >
- > The problem I have is that EVERYONE tells me that
- > the Plus, Classic and SE cannot run color quickdraw because
- > support is missing from the ROMs.
- >
- (blah blah blah)
-
- > I have been told that the software
- > requires a 68020 at least to run (contains instructions not
- > supported by a 68000).
- >
-
- "Everyone" is correct. The Color QuickDraw commands that you know and love
- *DO* require a 68020 or above to operate. However, the original QuickDraw
- included support for 8 colors (not 8-bit, just 8), and it is possible to
- finagle support for those eight colors out of a Mac Plus or SE. This might
- be
- what you are seeing on those external color monitors connected via the SCSI
- bus.
-
- I'm not sure how many applications support those original 8 colors; MacDraw
- does for sure, though.
-
- In any case, is what you want "color" or 8-bit color, as in the Mac II
- line...
-
- Daniel S.
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- Daniel A. Segel, KD6NMT Macintosh Customer Engineering
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