Re: Apple //e in Mac LC?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

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>> "Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>    I remember that Macintosh LC has an emulation card that it allows to 
>>> run Apple //e.
>>
>>    That would be the PDS-slot based "Apple IIe Card".
>>
>>>Do it run in double high resolution screen?
>>
>>    Yes, it supports Double-Hi-Res. I've been able to run MouseDesk and you
>> get that nice colorful fringing effect, accurately emulating the 
>> idiosyncracy
>> of that mode. There is a monochrome toggle option to disable color, giving
>> you a true (1-bit) 560x192 mode so MouseDesk displays legibly.
>>
>>    Unfortunately I don't have the cable to connect up an Apple 5.25 drive
>> so I've not done much experimenting and tinkering with my Apple IIe Card
>> (99% of my Apple IIe/IIc software is on 5.25 floppies).
>>
>>>Do Macintosh Finder have an ability to capture the screenshot from Apple 
>>>//e's text,
>>>LGR, HGR, and DHGR screens into bitmap files?
>>
>>    The standard Finder snap-shot key press works: Command-Shift-3
>> A Macintosh save dialog box will appear, allowing you to save the
>> screen shot of the current Apple IIe screen (text or video) as a
>> "SimpleText Picture". I'm sure that can be converted into a BMP,
>> GIF or JPEG.
>>
>>    Incidentally, the Apple IIe Card has no hardware to produce video,
>> all Apple II video modes are generated on the native Macintosh side
>> using QuickDraw. It's also one of the reasons the card can operate
>> slower than a real 1 MHz Apple IIe if it's installed in a slower system.
>
>    Thank you for the information.  Are you sure that Macintosh LC can 
>display colored 80-column text using double high-resolution screen? 

    If you mean colored 40/80 columns text as the Apple IIgs produces 
(i.e. 16 color selections for border, foreground and background) then no, 
it does not. All text is displayed in white, on a black background.

>Can it be readable like real Apple IIgs' emulated NTSC chip?

    The only thing in common with the Apple IIgs is the use of the 
Mega II (a IIe-on-a-chip) and IWM (disk controller chip). It does 
not generate a composite/NTSC video signal or output, it just
simulates it on the Macintosh video hardware--a VGA signal.

    Do you mean mixed 80 columns text on the lower half of a
 Double-Hi-Res screen? It handles that as well, with readable
80 columns text (white) and colored graphics on the upper half.

Mitchell Spector