Re: Apple II Music Video - Welcome to the Jungle!!

[Lyrical Nanoha <lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx>]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Linards Ticmanis wrote:

> Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
>
> > > Can't help but think of porting this to other systems with a low-res
> > > mode similar to GR either...
> >
> > Hm, like an IBM 5150 with a CGA? >:P
>
> For some systems one could easily abuse the fact that they store colors
> at a lower resolution than actual pixels.
>
> For example the C64 and (probably) the Spectrum.
>
> Good luck loading anything like motion video from a 1541 floppy or a ZX
> Microdrive though... ;-)

The CGA's 40x25 text mode could be used - if blink is disabled - to do an 
almost-perfect emulation of GR mode.

Juggles' Butterfly did this.  (I'd STILL kill to find this program, either 
Apple or IBM version.)

-uso.

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