Re: DVORAK keyboard on //e??!!!

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: Simon Biber <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:

: > > : Sounds like I might want to keep an eye out for an international //e.
: > Was it
: > > : developed to the level of the board used in the Platinum //es (mousetext
: > and
: > > : color blocker when using text on color screen)?
: > >
: > > Don't know about MouseText, but the color killer circuit you describe was
: > > introduced with the Autostart ROM, Applesoft BASIC, and the Apple ][+!
: > 8-)
: > 
: > No way. He said the circuit which kills color on the text part of a split
: > text-graphics screen. It's not present on most IIes.

: I wasn't aware of it on the composite video output of any IIe.  The IIgs
: doesn't do this either if you are using a composite monitor, but it does
: with an RGB monitor.

Er, in NTSC, unless Apple did something *really* exotic, either the color
burst is there or it isn't.  My IIgs has color fringing on mixed screens
if I plug it into a composite monitor.  In fact, I have one plugged into
my TV set downstairs right now; I'm trying to get that flaky TWGS to fail.
 So far it hasn't crashed in 48 hours.  In my primary GS I was lucky to
get it to run for 48 minutes...

Anyway, did they come up with a split-screen color killer?  I've never
heard of such a thing...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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