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Re: Byte structure of Lo res
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Lyrical Nanoha <LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Smohn Jith wrote:
>>
>> > What's the byte structure of Lo-res screen?
>>
>> Same as text, dividing the bytes into nibbles for top and bottom.
>>
>> -uso.
>
> In addition, each horizontal line is 40 contiguous bytes, but the lines
> are "scrambled" in the same way as the text screen's. Here's some sample
> code that uses a lookup table to convert a vertical index into a graphic
> base address:
>
> <http://www.wright.edu/~john.matthews/apple2.html#lr>
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Unfortunately I don't know how the text is, wish I had a //e technical
reference. So a nibble is the color part? 0-15? It starts at $0400 right?
Are there two screens? With the other at $0800? Is it scrambled like
hi-res?