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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: ANSI!?!?!?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.07o7@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:47:24 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- Good luck with your project to write an ANSI color screen driver for the
- 8bit. I am not doubting that it can be done, but I *AM* doubting that an
- 80 column color screen will be very readable.
-
- There is a PD comm program called TERM80 that uses software only drivers to
- create an 80 column screen - it runs in either ATASCII or straight ASCII
- (TTY) modes. It looked *great* on my composite monochrome monitor - but
- was VERY difficult to read on my 14" composite color monitor - if I put the
- image on my 20" color TV (monitor quality), it was just bearable from
- across the room, but would still give me a headache trying to read much
- from it. Even a B&W TV didn't do the job.
-
- BTW, there is a companion program to TERM80 called READ80 which allows you
- to read all those 80 character ASCII text files from the screen instead of
- dumping them to the printer. Same quality as above.
-
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- Jim Johnson-
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