Re: Double Hi-Res on 128Kb IIe or //c.

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net> wrote in message news:<3E37B6C0.52A5E558@usa.net>...
> I was reading in old Apple II oriented magazine that the double high
> resolution (560 x 192 pixels) mode on Apple IIe with 128Kb of RAM or
> //c, could display twice the resolution as 'normal' hi-res in 6 colours.
> While, double hi-res has 16 colours from palette of 256 colours. Is that
> true?

16 colors from a palette of 16 colors, I believe.

> 
> Seems to me, Apple left a void filled by "Beagle Graphics" and other
> programs to enable access to this graphics mode. Why did Apple make it
> so hard to use it, without thirt-party software?

No idea...

Then again, DHGR was put into the //e as an afterthought.  (This is
mentioned on some of the history pages, I think.)  So maybe they just
didn't take the time to develop software/firmware to handle it.

-uso.