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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- Developer Technical Support
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- Apple IIGS
- #29: Monochrome High-Resolution Mode
-
- Revised by: Rilla Reynolds November 1988
- Written by: Rilla Reynolds October 1987
-
- This Technical Note discusses a 280 x 192 monochrome high-resolution mode
- available on the Apple IIGS and useful for clarifying some graphics.
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- You can select a 280 x 192 monochrome high-resolution mode on the Apple IIGS
- with the following steps:
-
- 1. Select Monochrome and 40-column from the Control Panel (which sets
- the 40-column soft switch and bit 5 in $C029).
- 2. Select Hi-Res graphics mode (which sets GR and HIRES soft
- switches).
- 3. Read from to write to $C05E (AN3).
-
- To deselect the mode, read from or write to $C05F.
-
- A monochrome double high-resolution mode also exists on the IIGS, and you
- follow the same procedure outlined above to access it.
-
- You can use the monochrome mode to display sharper graphics-mode text and fine
- lines for applications which do not require color. Note that Applesoft BASIC
- also supports the monochrome video mode.
-
- The soft switches you must access in software to enable the monochrome high-
- resolution mode are as follows:
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- GR $C050
- HIRES $C057
- 40COL $C00C (for monochrome double hi-res, use 80COL at $C00D)
- AN3 OFF $C05E
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- In addition, you must set bit 5 of the register at $C029, and you must use a
- read-modify-write sequence since $C029 is a multi-function register.
-
- You can manipulate all of the soft switches listed above from the IIGS
- Monitor, except 40COL.
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