Re: Woz IIgs ROM version?

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <11NOV199701374096@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

[humongous snip]

>    If you plan to use the Apple IIgs to display native Super-High-Res
>graphics, than a color composite display is out of the question. While
>you may occasionally get recognizable color images from it, the majority
>of the time you'll get a messy, blurry image, often with rainbow and
>fringing patterns on many colors. If you _must_ use a composite display
>on the IIgs, use a monochrome monitor and set the 'Display' type option
>in the Control Panel to "Monochrome" (this allows the GS to display
>graphics in shades of grey, green or amber, depending on the color of
>your monochrome display).

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, connecting a composite color monitor
to the video output of a VOC gives good results. Mitchell mailed me to ask
how good it looks so I tried a few tests. 

My //e upgrade style ROM 01 has the VOC in it so I pulled it out of the
closet and set it up with my //e style composite color monitor. Then I 
borrowed the hard disk from the ROM 3 on my desk and connected it up and 
booted. The finder shows no color bleediness, and the letters in the menu
titles, icon names, window contents, etc are only the slightest bit fuzzy.
Still quite usable. So then I tried running JpeGS and decompressed a JPEG
picture file shared over from the Quadra. That gave quite impressive results.
Finally I ran Apple II Desktop to check out monochrome DHR graphics. These
usually look horrendous, forcing one to switch the IIgs display to monochrome
to kill the bleedy color effect. Not so with the VOC output, it looked fine
with both the IIgs and the monitor set to color. It has a slight fuzziness
effect like the finder in SHR, but not bad at all.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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