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Re: Double lowres graphics?



Dennis Jenkins wrote ...

 ....

> Since I want my code to work on all Apple II's that have hardware
> support for double low-res, I'll write
> the pixel plotting code myself, instead of
> calling Applesoft's implementation.  However,
> how to I programmatically turn on and off
> the 80 column firmware such that the output routine at $FDED will
> understand what I'm doing?  I know I can turn it
> on with a "jsr $c300", but how do I turn it off?
> 
 ....

     There is a simple graphics display program (DO.GR) on the Tnilutil (DOS
3.3) and PDutil (ProDOS) disks which can display hires and DHR. Checking
through the BASIC program and binary code (in DO.DHR.BIN) may be useful. You
can find the disks on Ground at ...

ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/useful.stuff/ .



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