Re: An old tech saving the GS?

[sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <Z9RVTB2w165w@cyberden.uucp> gasman@cyberden.uucp writes:
>I was reminescing about my old times with a CoCo 3(0.9 MHZ and 64 colors, 
>16 on screen) and I remembered an old digitizer technology. What would be 
>done was to digitize a picture with a red filter, then a green filter, 
>then a blue filter, and then to flip the screens together. A machine with 
>64 colors would achieve _4096_ that way. I am wondering if someone can 
>try this for an apple IIgs. It WOULD be nice to show all those who 
>believe the apple is dead! True color on a gs...ahhhh!

Depends on how many SHR display pages the GS offers.  I don't have a
GS, so I could be wrong on this, but I think the GS only has two SHR
pages (just like it has two of every other kind of page).  The CoCo,
on the other hand, lets you put a display page anywhere in
memory...it's easy to set up 3 or more pages.  (I do know this; I
picked up a CoCo 2 a couple of weeks ago and have messed around with
graphics a bit on it.  Not as many colors are possible on
it...probably the best compromise between color and resolution would
be G3C (128x96x4--square pixels) or G6C (128x192x4--fat pixels)--and
the palette is fixed as green/yellow/blue/red or
buff/cyan/magenta/orange.)

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