Re: Mockingboard output through IIgs internal speaker?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com> wrote in message
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: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: > Charlie wrote:
: >
: > >"Roger Johnstone" <roger@ihug.invalid> wrote in message
: > >20031215193734463+1300@news.inv.ihug.co.nz">news:20031215193734463+1300@news.inv.ihug.co.nz...
: > >> In <bri3lp01oso@enews1.newsguy.com> Charlie wrote:
: > >> >
: > >> > I've always wondered why the "monochrome" display
setting only worked
: > >> > for Double HiRes when using an RGB monitor.
: > >> >
: > >> > Charlie
: > >>
: > >> Because double hi-res really has two modes: 560 pixels per
line in
: > >> monochrome and 140 pixels per line in colour. The older
computers had no
: > >> way of telling which mode you wanted, so the IIe composite
colour
: > >> monitor has a switch on the front to turn off colour! The
IIgs replaces
: > >> that with a softswitch. Some IIgs-aware programs which use
DHR graphics
: > >> will automatically change the setting themselves e.g. IIRC
PublishIt!
: > >> uses DHR and will switch a IIgs to monochrome while it's
running.
: > >
: > >Thanks for the information.  I had always thought that DHR
graphics had only
: > >one mode (140 pixel color) and that the composite color
monitor switch just
: > >turned off the color burst signal.
: >
: > The switch on the monitor _does_ simply kill the color
decoding.
: >
: > For any 8-bit Apple (non-IIgs) with DHR, the only difference
between
: > 140 16-color pixels and 560 monochrome pixels is how the
monitor
: > interprets the video signal.
:
: Well, now I have to admit I'm pretty confused.  My original
post was meant to

Not that I am any better, but I'm confused too, considering this
thread began as an inquiry into outputs from the Mockingboard.
;-)

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